Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 5000
f/2.8
Foreground: 7 x 20 seconds
Sky: 20 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 27 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way above the Pinnacles Desert, about 2 hours north of Perth in Western Australia.
This was one of the first opportunities I had to go out with my new full frame camera, the Nikon d810a, a camera dedicated to astrophotography with an IR filter designed to capture significantly more light from h-alpha emission nebulae (deep red on the visible spectrum at 656 nm). It's my first full frame DSLR and when used with the same 50mm lens I used with my old crop sensor camera it allows me to shoot large panoramas much more quickly, so double bonus.
Prominent in this image is the pink, petal shaped Carina Nebula near the centre, just below that is Crux aka the Southern Cross and in the right corner is the Large Magellanic Cloud. You can see quite a bit of h-alpha emissions in the top left, not visible in any of my other shots from my old camera...so it does a good job.
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