I have trouble buying this as a single exposure. It does check out pretty much as to time and place, but its 180 X 90 degree swath is hard to figure, especially with the deep exposure of the Milky Way.
I can do a piece by piece comparison with the Starry Night view, but I have to roll it around, and it changes the projection as I do so. Well, I can’t point to any single thing, unless it’s the fakey look of that guy in the orange parka!
What is that at the top of the photo? It looks like the same sandy terrain that is at the bottom.
You can get that wide with an 18mm lens, and if it’s positioned correctly you would not get huge distortion. I am assuming a 35mm sized sensor.
Y’know, I was half asleep when I posted it... that is really weird-lookin’... sez the photographer pointed the wide-angle straight up, which is why there’s ground at top and bottom of the shot...
But anyway, I have the same impression from a good many of these mixed-terrestrial shots.