Half the horizon took part!
Sunset Panorama
Last night I ditched a family dinner to sit on the fantail of the boat and watch the sun set, to ponder life and all the little moving parts that are required to sustain it, and to take a few pictures. This is built from a series of fourteen still photos, and came together pretty well. You can click to see a less-shrunk version. The sunset got a lot redder after a while, but I didn’t go back and take another set for a panorama.
Sunset off the stern of the boat
So what software do you use for the stitching?
I used Hugin, which is open source and worked most impressively well. The Canon photostitch is faster, but the results with Hugin are better, and it can cope with things like exposure differences (that I was careful to prevent in this panorama anyway).
Hmmm, maybe you should get into cloud collecting:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/interactive/2009/jul/17/cloud-collector-pretor-pinney