Universe as you’ve never seen it before: Incredible 360 degree panoramic timelapses show stunning star trails and all night sky

These are some of the most mesmerizing images of the night sky ever created, the Daily Mail reports. 

An American photographer has revealed a radical set of 360 degree panoramic pictures.

Created using a specially developed four camera rig, they show stars in the night all around.

Photographer Vincent Brady said he came up with the idea while creating panoramas during the day.

'While experimenting with different photography tricks and techniques back in 2012, I was shooting 360 degree panoramas in the daytime and long exposures of the stars streaking in the sky at night.

'It suddenly became clear that the potential to combine the two techniques could be a trip!'

However, to create the images, Brady had to build his own special camera rig.

'Since the Earth is rotating at a steady 1,040 mph I created a custom rig of 4 cameras with fisheye lenses to capture the entire night-sky in motion,' he said.

'Thus the images show the stars rotating around the north star as well as the effect of the southern pole as well and a 360 degree panorama of the scene on Earth.'

Each of the four cameras is taking nonstop long exposures, typically about 1 minute consecutively for the life of the camera battery which usually lasts for three hours.

Brady wrote a computer code to stitch all the thousands of these panoramas into a time-lapse.

However the project was then put on hold.

'I created my rig in January of 2013 while in my final semester at Lansing Community College before receiving an associate’s degree in photography,' he said.

'Given it was winter in Michigan, I didn’t get to chase the notorious clear moonless night sky as much as I had hoped as the region has lots of cloud cover that time of year.'

After graduating in May I had built up quite the urge to hit the road.

'My rig has taken me to firefly parties in Missouri, dark eerie nights at Devils Tower, through Logan Pass at Glacier National Park, up the mountains of British Columbia, and around the amazing arches and sandstone monuments in the Great American Southwest.