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Summer Milky Way at Cowcowing Lakes, Western Australia

Nikon d810a

50mm

ISO 3200

f/2.0

Foreground: 20 x 30 seconds

Sky: 65 x 25 seconds

H-Alpha: 10 x 60 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

 

This is a 95 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way arch and Magellanic Clouds above the polygonal salt flats of Cowcowing, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.

 

Prominent in this image are the red hydrogen alpha emitting regions of Orion, at about 11 o'clock from my perspective standing in the middle of the image, and the Gum Nebula at about 1 o'clock. In the top right at the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds. There's also quite a bit of red and green airglow.

 

 

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Uploaded on March 30, 2025
Taken on December 27, 2024