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Touching the Clouds - Magellanic Clouds at Lake Ninan, Western Australia

Nikon d5500

35mm

ISO 4000

f/2.2

6 x 30 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

 

This is a 6 image panorama of the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds at Lake Ninan approximately 2 hours NE of Perth in Western Australia.

These two neighbouring galaxies can pretty much only be seen in the Southern Hemisphere. The LMC contains around 30 billion stars while the SMC contains just a few billion. The bright 'star' above the SMC is a globular cluster called 47 Tucanae containing around 500k stars.

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Uploaded on March 24, 2019
Taken on August 12, 2018