Summer Milky Way at The Pinnacles Desert, Western Australia
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 3200
f/2.8
Foreground: 10 x 10 seconds
Sky: 22 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 32 shot panorama of the Milky Way's Crux region as it aligns perpendicular with the horizon at The Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
The dew point was close to 20c this particular night so everything started to get quite dewy very early on, so much so that the lens was continually getting fogged up and acting like a natural fog filter, hence the bloated stars. I had to stop an all night star trails shoot I was doing with my other camera because its lens was completely fogged up after just an hour or so with no way of wiping the lens and ruining shots.
Prominent in this image is the pink coloured Carina Nebula in the upper centre and just below it is the easily recognisable (thanks the the bloated stars) Crux constellation, hanging off of the Coal Sack Nebula. The foreground was light painted using a hand held spotlight.
Summer Milky Way at The Pinnacles Desert, Western Australia
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 3200
f/2.8
Foreground: 10 x 10 seconds
Sky: 22 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 32 shot panorama of the Milky Way's Crux region as it aligns perpendicular with the horizon at The Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
The dew point was close to 20c this particular night so everything started to get quite dewy very early on, so much so that the lens was continually getting fogged up and acting like a natural fog filter, hence the bloated stars. I had to stop an all night star trails shoot I was doing with my other camera because its lens was completely fogged up after just an hour or so with no way of wiping the lens and ruining shots.
Prominent in this image is the pink coloured Carina Nebula in the upper centre and just below it is the easily recognisable (thanks the the bloated stars) Crux constellation, hanging off of the Coal Sack Nebula. The foreground was light painted using a hand held spotlight.