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Two and a bit galaxies

            The Milky Way galaxy is always visible in the night sky, purely by way of definition. The Earth–along with the Sun and everything else in our Solar System–is inside the Milky Way. This fact means that when we look at the moon, planets and stars at night, we’re seeing the Milky Way. 

The galactic core region of the Milky Way (“the core”, or “galactic centre”) is what nightscape photographers regard as the most photogenic section of the galaxy that we see in the heavens. In my photo the core is on the right-hand side of the image, looking like clouds of earthly dust obscuring a big blob of light low in the night sky. That is the “bit” of a galaxy I referred to in the title of today’s post. 

What about the other two galaxies I mentioned? These are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the bright and wispy orbs of light in the sky at the left of the photo. The Clouds are companion galaxies of the Milky Way (they’re also called “satellite galaxies”) that are travelling with us through our part of the “Local Group” of galaxies. Southern Hemisphere observers get to see the Magellanic Clouds all year round, even during a full moon. Well, unless the view is clouded out, that is. 

I captured this scene in September of 2017, at a location on the plains at the feet of Australia’s Snowy Mountains. The phantom-like figure in blue at the bottom left is fellow nightscape addict Ian Williams. Although this looks like a single photo, it’s a stitched image, created from sixteen individual and overlapping shots. Each shot was taken with a Canon EOS 6D camera, a Rokinon 24mm lens @ f/2.4, exposed for 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.

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

Taken on: September 17, 2017

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D, 15 sec, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D
Exposure Time:	15
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 7.2 (Macintosh)
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