Milky Way over the Stirling Ranges, Western Australia

            Nikon d5500
35mm

Sky - 45 x 30 seconds
ISO 3200
f/2.8

Foreground - 22 x 60 seconds
ISO 1600
f/1.8

iOptron SkyTracker
Stitched in MS ICE

This is a 67 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising over Bluff Knoll and the Stirling Ranges approximately 400km south of Perth in Western Australia. This region of Australia has some of the darkest skies in the world. Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds, the Carina Nebula and quite a bit of green and orange airglow.
Bluff Knoll is the tallest peak in south Western Australia and usually gets one or two dustings of light snow every winter, a news-worthy event in these parts :)
   

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Taken in: Australia / Western Australia (show map)

Taken on: July 2, 2018

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