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Summer Milky Way at The Pinnacles Desert, Western Australia

Nikon d5500

50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter

ISO 4000

f/3.2

Sky: 55 x 30 seconds

Foreground: 17 x 15 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

 

This is a 72 shot image of the Carina/Crux region of the Milky Way as it aligns perpendicular with the horizon. To the right are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds. The Pinnacles Desert is an area of limestone rock protrusions across two square km near the Indian Ocean, approximately 2 hours north of Perth.

 

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Uploaded on March 22, 2019
Taken on January 13, 2019