Milky Way at Waddouring Dam, Western Australia

Nikon d810

35mm

ISO 4000

f/2.5

Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds

Sky: 14 x 25 seconds

H-alpha: 4 x 60 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

 

This is a 25 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above Waddouring Dam, 3 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. In all my years of doing astrophotography, these might be the darkest skies I have ever seen. As I was packing my gear up I looked up at the core overhead and couldn't believe how much detail I could see with the naked eye. Crazy.

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