A Cosmic Tuft of Wool - a photo on Flickriver

            A handful of sheep stood atop this hill, silhouetted by the lights of the rural city of Goulburn, Australia, while I photographed the starry and cloud-free sky at the Taralga wind farm in mid-November of this year. High overhead and looking like a tuft of wool, cut free and discarded by a shearer’s blades, the amorphous glow from the billions of stars forming the Large Magellanic is the standout feature of today’s photo.

The background sky is showing a purplish tint, caused by the presence of what scientists call “airglow” in the Earth’s atmosphere, which human eyes cannot see, sadly. Dark nebulae in the Milky Way show themselves as dimmer patches in the sky near the horizon, as they block the light from stars more distant than these enormous bodies of gas and dust.

I shot two overlapping frames to create this final image, using my Canon EOS 6D Mk II Digital SLR camera fitted with a Sigma 35 mm wide-angle lens. Each photo was taken using the same settings, which were a shutter speed of 8.0 seconds, a lens aperture of f/1.6, and an ISO selection of 6400.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Taralga (show map)

Taken on: November 14, 2020

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Astronomy

Astrophotography

Eaglehawk Neck

Farm

Galactic Core

Goulburn

LMC

Large Magellanic Cloud

Livestock

Magellanic Clouds

Milky Way

Night

Nightscapes

Sheep

Sky

Southern Tablelands

Stars

Stock

Taralga

Wind Farm

New South Wales

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, f/1.6, 8 sec, 35mm (=34mm), ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Lens:	35mm F1.4 DG HSM \| Art 012
Aperture:	f/1.6
Exposure Time:	8
Focal Length:	35mm (35mm equivalent: 34mm)
ISO:	6400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9.3 (Macintosh)
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