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With the limited view from a balcony, the result is a half spherical panorama with 180°x180°.
This is quite different from the Tower Panorama.

In the Balcony Panorama, the half sphere is to one side only:

In this example, 6 full frame fisheye pictures cover the 180°x180°:

The 360°x180° equirectangular panorama editor view displays only half the view as expected:

The cropped picture shows the equirectangular projection of the half sphere:

Different projection can be used to minimize the visible distortion.
The Transversal projections are ideal because of the large vertical field of view.

The Transversal Equirectangular projection:

or the edge-of-the-world projection:

The Transversal Cylindrical projection:

The Transversal Mercator projection:

The Transversal Vedutismo projection:

The Stereographic (circular fisheye) projection:

And the little Planet projection:

Compared to the Cylindrical projection:

And the normal rectangular projection.
That wide angle lens has to cover 150°. Good to have a 🐟👁:

See also Panotools projection, Panotools projections example, Stereographic projection and Use Case for Transverse Mercator Projection ✅.