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Outback Airglow and the Magellanic Clouds - The Pinnacles Desert, Western Australia

Nikon d5500

50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier Filter

ISO 4000

19 x 30 seconds

f/2.8

iOptron SkyTracker

 

This is a 19 shot panorama of the Magellanic Clouds behind bands of airglow over the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia, about 200km north of Perth. Airglow is light emitted from excited oxygen atoms in the upper atmosphere and can be either green or red.

 

The Magellanic Clouds are our neighbouring satellite galaxies recently found to have collided about 100m years ago.

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Uploaded on February 2, 2019
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