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Large Magellanic Cloud at The Pinnacles Desert, Western Australia

Nikon d5500

85mm

ISO 4000

f/2.2

Foreground: 15 x 20 seconds

Sky: 10 x 20 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

 

This is a 25 shot panorama of the Large Magellanic Cloud above a lone pinnacle at The Pinnacles Desert, 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.

The LMC is a dwarf satellite galaxy about 160k light years away and contains roughly 30 billion stars.

 

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Uploaded on September 7, 2020
Taken on July 20, 2020