Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 3200
f/3.2
Foreground: 6 x 13 seconds
Sky: 10 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 16 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising over a wheat farm at Williams, 1.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
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Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 4000
f/3.2
Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds
Sky: 16 x 30 seconds
IOptron SkyTracker
This is a 23 shot panorama of the early season Milky Way rising above a dry Lake Norring, 2.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia. This lake is known for its numerous granite boulder outcrops, one of the largest is featured here. Though it's hard to tell the scale from this shot, it's about three times the height of an average person.
The 'redder' regions of this image were captured using a hydrogen alpha filter which isolates that particular wavelength of light, emitted by those nebulae.
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Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 3200
f/3.2
Foreground: 9 x 8 seconds
Sky: 9 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is an 18 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above the derelict ruins of the Happy Valley Homestead near Williams, 1.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
The actual homestead, which is out of picture on the right (I took a separate image of that), has been restored somewhat but the rest of the property is feeling the passage of time. I placed a red headlamp in the smaller shed in the foreground.
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Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 4000
f/3.2
Foreground: 14 x 15 seconds
Sky: 35 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 49 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a dry, salt encrusted Lake Norring, 2.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds, just right of centre. Diagonally right is the large, deep red Gum Nebula, captured in detail thanks to a screw on H-alpha filter. To the left of that is the pink Carina Nebula while the Zodiacal Light can be seen, quite brightly, lighting up the core area.
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Nikon d810a
85mm
ISO 6400
f/3.2
Foreground: 24 x 30 seconds
Sky: 29 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Starscape filter
This is a 53 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way above a dry Lake Norring, 2.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
This was a forced composition, the only respite from 50km/h winds was between two outcrops of large boulders so that's where I began the first panorama of this long night. Thankfully the winds abated later on. Crux is adjacent to the large, dark Coalsack Nebula almost dead centre of the image with the pink Carina Nebula directly above it. The smaller pink splotch inbetween the two is the Lambda Centauri Nebula.
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