S & T Test Report Alan Dyer Nightscapes with iOptron's iPANO AllView Pro mount makes a new form of astrophoto possible. iOptron iPANO AllView Pro Camera Mount U.S. price: $999 Available from iOptron.com and dealers worldwide. If you frequent online galleries of astrophotos you've likely marveled at panoramic nightscapes showing the Milky Way sweeping from horizon to horizon above a starlit landscape. So how do photographers do it? The secret is to cover the complete scene with multiple frames shot to include generous overlap. In the past, I've shot night panoramas manually, using either a 14-mm ultra-wide or 15-mm fish-eye lens, with the camera turned to portrait orientation, and aimed about halfway up the sky. I shot eight frames equally spaced 45°° apart to cover a full 360°. That manual method certainly works. But the new iPANO AllView Pro mount permits photographers to take panoramas to a new level of quality and detail. With The iPANO is designed to create high-resolution panoramas of night scenes, such as this nearly 360-degree horizon-to-zenith panorama of the May sky, complete with an aurora and the Milky Way, taken at the author's rural home. This is a massive mosaic of 44 images in 4 tiers of 11 segments, each a 30-second exposure with a 35-mm lens at f/2 and recorded at ISO 4000. 58 September 2016 sky & telescopehttp://www.iOptron.com