I'm a total novice at this so may have done it wrong so to speak, but a few months ago I did a panoramic shot of a local pond with the Milky Way above it & as I have a 17-50mm lens of a crop sensor body I just couldn't get what I wanted in a single shot or a normal panoramic shot so my way around it was to turn my camera into portrait position & took my foreground shots from left to right, then adjusted the angle to capture a mix of mid ground & sky & took my shots from right to left & finally adjusted the angle of the camera again to capture mainly the sky & worked from left to right & used PS to place the images after I had checked the white balance & tint of each shot was the same & I was quite pleased with the outcome