Jun 24, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: 9 Stunning Panoramas of Starry Skies, Captured With a Homemade Camera Rig

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Vincent Brady designed a custom camera rig to take 360 degree panoramic shots of the night sky. You're looking at the swirl of the night sky's motion in Monument Valley, Ariz.
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Brady took four refurbished Canon T2I, stuck fisheye lenses on them and attached the cameras to a wooden bracket.

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Here's the Milky Way rising over Delicate Arch in Utah.
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The cameras take photos around 1-2 minutes for 2 to 3 hours, or until his camera battery runs out.

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Sometimes he takes stills, like this shot inside the Double Arch in Utah. But he regularly winds up with at least 150 photos from each of his camera that he then stitches together and layers for a time lapse effect.
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The Double Arch in Arches National Park.

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This shot was taken in Grand Ledge, Mich. You can see stars streaking across the sky and fireflies darting about.
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Brady shot this images of the Natural Totem Poles in Monument Valley, Ariz., over the course of 3 hours.

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Balanced Rock in Utah shot as a still.
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Fireflies at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.

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