Late Season Milky Way - Lake Clifton, Western Australia

            Nikon d5500
35mm
21 x 30 seconds
ISO 4000
f/2.2

This was taken quite late in the Milky Way season, in October. It's a 21 image, tracked panorama using an iOptron SkyTracker mount. This was the last of a few panoramas I took that night but the others were affected by cloud cover. I was also getting attacked by millions of bugs everytime I turned on my torch to adjust my tripod :)
Being late in the season, the core is quite close to the horizon and as such the light is scattered much more as it has to travel through significantly more atmosphere, colours and detail are reduced as a result of this scattering.
Lake Clifton is about an hour's drive from my home and has some quite dark skies for its proximity to large cities.
   

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Taken in: Australia / Western Australia / Clifton (show map)

Taken on: December 4, 2018

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