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Summer Milky Way at Lake Ninan, Western Australia

Nikon d810a

50mm

ISO 6400

f/2.8

Foreground: 12 x 10 seconds

Sky: 53 x 30 seconds

H-Alpha: 13 x 60 seconds

IOptron SkyTracker

 

This is a 78 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way arch over Lake Ninan, 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. The prominent red regions in the sky are hydrogen alpha emitting nebulae captured using a screw on filter which isolates that part of the spectrum.

 

Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds in the right corner and following the 'band' of the Milky Way from the left side we have the California Nebula, the easily recognisable Orion Nebula & Barnard's Loop, the aptly named Seagull Nebula near the centre, the huge Gum Nebula and finally the pink Carina Nebula.

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Uploaded on July 14, 2024
Taken on January 6, 2024