A question about Exposure.
 
To make my Pano's I need to shoot 38 Pics whcih is fine with me. A constant I am coming across though is the zenith shot being visible as a big ugly dot. I have tried to blend this out in photoshop with little success. So i have realized it is an exposure thing in camera and nothing to do with Stiticher and Photoshop.
 
Does anybody out there have any tips or tricks to get past this, every other element in my pano's look great.  
 
Also is there a way to boost Equilize's sensitivity. I find it doesn't really do mcuh with so many images that have different exposure's.
 
Any Advice would be welcomed.

Hi Topper!
 
38 pics - so you're shooting 12 images for your top row?
 
Are you bracketing your shots? The zenith exposure will vary significantly from the top row images. Bracketing your images will help to mitigate this differential.
 
Using a blending routine (enblend or SmartBlend - Spherical image render) will really help here and then your can touch up discrepencies with a spherical > cubical conversion (via Stitcher) in Photoshop.