Summer Milky Way at the Stirling Ranges, Western Australia
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.2
Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds
Sky: 30 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 37 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way as it rises above the Stirling Ranges National Park, 4 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
Traditionally known as the 'emu rising' by indigenous Australians as the dark, dusty regions resemble an emu's neck and head jutting out of the horizon. This part of the sky includes the pink coloured Carina Nebula just below the large, deep red Gum Nebula. Below Carina is the Crux constellation, more commonly known as the Southern Cross, the most widely recognisable constellation in Australian skies. On the right side of the image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds, neighbouring dwarf galaxies which orbit our own.
The road I captured this on, Formby Road South, runs almost directly south so lines up nicely with this part of the sky as it aligns perpendicular to the horizon. The two peaks which seem to cradle the Milky Way band are Mt Trio (817m or 2680ft) on the left and Mt Toolbrunup (1052m or 3451ft) on the right.
Summer Milky Way at the Stirling Ranges, Western Australia
Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.2
Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds
Sky: 30 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 37 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way as it rises above the Stirling Ranges National Park, 4 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
Traditionally known as the 'emu rising' by indigenous Australians as the dark, dusty regions resemble an emu's neck and head jutting out of the horizon. This part of the sky includes the pink coloured Carina Nebula just below the large, deep red Gum Nebula. Below Carina is the Crux constellation, more commonly known as the Southern Cross, the most widely recognisable constellation in Australian skies. On the right side of the image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds, neighbouring dwarf galaxies which orbit our own.
The road I captured this on, Formby Road South, runs almost directly south so lines up nicely with this part of the sky as it aligns perpendicular to the horizon. The two peaks which seem to cradle the Milky Way band are Mt Trio (817m or 2680ft) on the left and Mt Toolbrunup (1052m or 3451ft) on the right.