Magellanic Clouds - Cataby, Western Australia
Nikon d5100
35mm
4 x 13 seconds
ISO 4000
f2
Hmmm, something different about this one.....oh, no Milky Way! Well technically it's all the Milky Way, except those two splotches of course, they're the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, our neighbouring galaxies 200k & 160k light years away. The LMC contains approximately 30 billion stars while the SMC contains just a few billion. These two beauties can only be seen in Southern Hemisphere skies.
The yellow/orange light pollution is caused by smoke from controlled burns around the city at the time.
Magellanic Clouds - Cataby, Western Australia
Nikon d5100
35mm
4 x 13 seconds
ISO 4000
f2
Hmmm, something different about this one.....oh, no Milky Way! Well technically it's all the Milky Way, except those two splotches of course, they're the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, our neighbouring galaxies 200k & 160k light years away. The LMC contains approximately 30 billion stars while the SMC contains just a few billion. These two beauties can only be seen in Southern Hemisphere skies.
The yellow/orange light pollution is caused by smoke from controlled burns around the city at the time.