A 360 panorama taken in the pre-dawn hours (4:45 a.m.) on December 8, 2013, from the Painted Pony Resort in SW New Mexico. The panorama takes in, from left to right: Arcturus just on the treetop; the zodiacal light rising up from the east ; red Mars embedded in the zodiacal light below Leo ; the Milky Way from Puppis and Canis Major at left arching up and across the sky down into Perseus at right ; Sirius the brightest star ; Orion setting over the main house ; Jupiter, the bright object at top centre in Gemini ; Aldebaran and the Pleiades setting right of the main house in Taurus ; Polaris over the smaller house at right ; the Big Dipper pointing to Polaris at upper right ; a green glow along the northern horizon above the smaller house that may be some aurora (there was a good display this night from northern latitudes) or may be intense airglow. ; green and red bands throughout the sky are airglow ; bands of high cloud also permeate the sky adding natural glows around the stars. This is a panorama created in PTGui software from 6 segments, all tracked, taken with the 14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8 for 2.5 minutes each and with the Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. PTGui does not preserve EXIF data. (Photo by: Alan Dyer /VW PICS/UIG)