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Milky Way at Quairading, Western Australia

Nikon d5500

50mm

ISO 5000

f/2.2

Foreground: 21 x 20 seconds

Sky: 50 x 25 seconds

 

This is a 71 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising over Salt River near Quairading, 2.5 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.

 

Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds on the right and near the top centre is the pink coloured Carina Nebula. Airglow on this night was pretty crazy, almost all my images straight out of the camera had an extremely green tint to them.

 

I took these images undernearth a bridge, the top of which wouldn't have been any higher than a couple of metres above my head. The dead silence was interrupted a couple of times by the roar of a road train (multi trailer truck) going over the top of my head at 100kph!

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Uploaded on June 14, 2021
Taken on April 14, 2021