Milky Way & Magellanic Clouds at The Pinnacles Desert, Western Australia

            Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter
ISO 4000
f/2.2
Foreground: 25 x 6 seconds
Sky: 96 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker

This is a 126 image panorama of the Milky Way & Magellanic Clouds over The Pinnacles Desert, about 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia. 

Originally coming out at 1.3 gigapixels it had to be drastically downsized to fit within Flickr's 200MB file size limit so now it's a 'measly' 436 megapixels.

Prominent in this image are, of course, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds on the left. the pink coloured Carina Nebula just down and right of the LMC, the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex in the centre of the image and the North America Nebula at the tail end of the galactic band on the right, just visible in the red airglow. The foreground was light painted with a hand held spotlight and evened out in post with a bit of selective dodging and burning.
   

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Taken in: Australia / West Coast / Cervantes (show map)

Taken on: September 2, 2018

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