Summer Milky Way at Kondut, Western Australia
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 3200
f/2.0
Foreground: 8 x 15 seconds
Sky: 41 x 25 seconds
H-Alpha: 6 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 55 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way above a grain silo at Kondut, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
This is the first time I have captured the fourth Southern Hemisphere arch of the Milky Way. Yes, we have four arches! This is the second of the summer arches, the more common one has both the Magellanic Clouds and Orion outside the arch, this has them inside the arch. There's only a small window of opportunity in which to capture it so I settled on a wider 35mm lens rather than my usual 50mm or sometimes 85mm panoramas which can take well over an hour to finish, but this took just 27 minutes. Much like the setting MW, this is taken while looking towards the west, well, more like south west.
These grain silos, aka grain receival points, are all over the Wheatbelt in WA, at almost every town along the rail lines. The only other building in this town was a house that probably belongs to the caretaker of this particular silo.
Most prominent in this image are a number of red hydrogen alpha emitting regions including the Gum Nebula, pretty much at zenith when I captured this pano which is why it looks so huge. Orion can be seen to the right and the Crux & Carina region to the left.
Summer Milky Way at Kondut, Western Australia
Nikon d810a
35mm
ISO 3200
f/2.0
Foreground: 8 x 15 seconds
Sky: 41 x 25 seconds
H-Alpha: 6 x 60 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 55 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way above a grain silo at Kondut, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.
This is the first time I have captured the fourth Southern Hemisphere arch of the Milky Way. Yes, we have four arches! This is the second of the summer arches, the more common one has both the Magellanic Clouds and Orion outside the arch, this has them inside the arch. There's only a small window of opportunity in which to capture it so I settled on a wider 35mm lens rather than my usual 50mm or sometimes 85mm panoramas which can take well over an hour to finish, but this took just 27 minutes. Much like the setting MW, this is taken while looking towards the west, well, more like south west.
These grain silos, aka grain receival points, are all over the Wheatbelt in WA, at almost every town along the rail lines. The only other building in this town was a house that probably belongs to the caretaker of this particular silo.
Most prominent in this image are a number of red hydrogen alpha emitting regions including the Gum Nebula, pretty much at zenith when I captured this pano which is why it looks so huge. Orion can be seen to the right and the Crux & Carina region to the left.