You are looking at the Manhattan skyline at night as viewed from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City.

Tap here for the daytime version of this gigapixel panorama.

Gigapixel Metadata
# Images in Panorama145
Camera BodyCanon EOS R5
LensSigma EF150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM C
Focal Length (Each)600mm
Aperture (Each)f/6.3
Shutter Speed (Each)1s
ISO (Each)100
Capture Time (1st Photo)2023-04-03 00:23:31 EDT
Capture Time (249th Photo)2023-04-03 00:38:37 EDT
Full Resolution92,225 x 30,690px = 2.83 Gigapixels

To create this image, I used the following tools:

  • PTGui Pro 12.21 for stitching the panorama
  • Photoshop to fill the transparent gaps in the sky in the final panorama (I don't know how to get PTGui to properly stitch images without control points)
  • ImageMagick to convert the .psb file from Photoshop into a PNG file (Photoshop can't export PNG files larger than 2GB)
  • libvips to create the image pyramid from the full-resolution panorama:

    vips.exe dzsave pano.png nyc-night --tile-size 512 --suffix .avif[Q=69]

  • OpenSeadragon to create the above image viewer