Carina & The Magellanic Clouds at Northam, Western Australia
Nikon d5500
85mm
ISO 3200
f/2.8
Foreground: 9 x 15 seconds
Sky: 45 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 54 shot panorama of the Magellanic Clouds and Carina Nebula over a lone tree on a wheat farm near Northam, 1.5 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
This is a new composition I was trying, vertically aligning the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Carina Nebula. I thought the nebula would be more prominent but with it being so low in the sky its light gets more scattered as it goes through more or our atmosphere and so loses a bit of clarity and detail. There was also a lot of airglow around so perhaps that didn't help either, though it did add some nice colour to the image, as it tends to do.
Carina & The Magellanic Clouds at Northam, Western Australia
Nikon d5500
85mm
ISO 3200
f/2.8
Foreground: 9 x 15 seconds
Sky: 45 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 54 shot panorama of the Magellanic Clouds and Carina Nebula over a lone tree on a wheat farm near Northam, 1.5 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
This is a new composition I was trying, vertically aligning the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Carina Nebula. I thought the nebula would be more prominent but with it being so low in the sky its light gets more scattered as it goes through more or our atmosphere and so loses a bit of clarity and detail. There was also a lot of airglow around so perhaps that didn't help either, though it did add some nice colour to the image, as it tends to do.