Milky Way & Orion at Lake Clifton, Western Australia
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 4000
f/2.5
Foreground: 19 x 30 seconds
Sky: 135 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 154 shot panorama of the Milky Way and Orion above Lake Clifton's thrombolites, one of the most ancient forms of life on earth, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
I had this shot in mind for quite some time. I wanted to capture both Orion and the core's Sagittarius region in the one panorama, normally pretty much impossible as when the core rises, Orion is setting. The only time they are in the sky together at the same time is when both regions are very close to the horizon and, as such, badly affected by the Earth's atmosphere scattering their light.
The idea was to shoot them both at least 20 degrees above the horizon but they are never at this altitude together. So my thought was to capture the panorama starting from the west where Orion is setting and at 20 degrees, but instead of shooting a standard horizontal panning style panorama I was going to shoot a vertical tilt style panorama ie shooting column by column rather than row by row (if that makes sense). I wasn't even sure that the stitching software would process it. The whole thing took two hours to shoot so by the time I got to the core in the east it had risen to 20 degrees. The next day I not-very-confidently ran the images through MSICE and was surprised to see it stitch the images without much issue. Phew!
Aside from Orion on the right side of the image, other prominent features are the Magellanic Clouds in the centre and the Carina Nebula, the pink coloured splotch, at the top of the arc while some quite strong red and green airglow adds some nice colour to the image. The tripod you can see on the jetty/boardwalk is my older d5100 camera, automatically taking the shots that made up the star trails image I posted a week ago.
Milky Way & Orion at Lake Clifton, Western Australia
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 4000
f/2.5
Foreground: 19 x 30 seconds
Sky: 135 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 154 shot panorama of the Milky Way and Orion above Lake Clifton's thrombolites, one of the most ancient forms of life on earth, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
I had this shot in mind for quite some time. I wanted to capture both Orion and the core's Sagittarius region in the one panorama, normally pretty much impossible as when the core rises, Orion is setting. The only time they are in the sky together at the same time is when both regions are very close to the horizon and, as such, badly affected by the Earth's atmosphere scattering their light.
The idea was to shoot them both at least 20 degrees above the horizon but they are never at this altitude together. So my thought was to capture the panorama starting from the west where Orion is setting and at 20 degrees, but instead of shooting a standard horizontal panning style panorama I was going to shoot a vertical tilt style panorama ie shooting column by column rather than row by row (if that makes sense). I wasn't even sure that the stitching software would process it. The whole thing took two hours to shoot so by the time I got to the core in the east it had risen to 20 degrees. The next day I not-very-confidently ran the images through MSICE and was surprised to see it stitch the images without much issue. Phew!
Aside from Orion on the right side of the image, other prominent features are the Magellanic Clouds in the centre and the Carina Nebula, the pink coloured splotch, at the top of the arc while some quite strong red and green airglow adds some nice colour to the image. The tripod you can see on the jetty/boardwalk is my older d5100 camera, automatically taking the shots that made up the star trails image I posted a week ago.