Milky Way in the Desert
The California Desert is a great location for Milky Way shots since it's dry and the high desert avoids surface air distortions. The rocks, hills, and cliffs as a foreground are hard to beat.
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Milky Way at Ryan Mountain Trailhead
Shooting panoramas in the dark is a pretty difficult task since it's difficult to make sure you're properly overlapping the frames. I recently purchased a device(MIOPS Capsule 360) to automate shooting panoramas. You program in the angle, overlap, and lens information on your smartphone and it takes care of the movement and triggering the shutter. I used an L-bracket with a manual pano head to move from one row to the next.
