The Galaxy's Made of Cheese - a photo on Flickriver

The Galaxy's Made of Cheese

            Fans of the claymation short films, “Wallace & Gromit”, will tell you that it’s the Moon–and not the Milky Way–that’s made of cheese. There was a proverb, from the year 1546, that spoke of the Moon being made of green cheese. Apparently, this saying was used at the time to describe people who would be so gullible as to believe such a thing.

I admit that it’s self-evident that the Milky Way is made of milk, of course! The long-defunct cheese factory in my photo, atop a small rise next to the Princes Highway at Bumbo, on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, gave me the inspiration for the name of today’s nightscape photo. The idea of photographing the former fromage factory, under the Milky Way, came from a friend I was visiting during June of 2019 on a long-weekend break on the coast. At around 1:00 am on my last night in the region before heading north to my home in Sydney, I visited the spot and captured the photos I used to create this vertical panorama. The overly-bright looking Milky Way is due to a thin fog that was moistening the sky at the time.

To get the eight individual frames that make up this composite photo I used a Canon EOS 6D camera fitted with a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.4, mounted on a Nodal Ninja panoramic tripod head. I selected an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400 for each shot.

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

Taken on: June 11, 2019

Tags:

Airglow

Astronomy

Autopano Pro

Bodalla

Bridge

Eurobodalla

Galactic Core

Milky Way

Night

Nightscapes

Old Cheese Factory

Orange Airglow

Pano

Panorama

Panos

Sky

South Coast NSW

Stars

Stitch

Tuross

Tuross Head

Tuross River

New South Wales

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Sets appears in: • Nightscapes • Panoramas

Groups appears in: • Photography • BBC Sky at Night and Stargazing Live more » • Amateur Astro-Photography • Canon 6D + Samyang lenses • Yes you can see the Milky Way • We love Nature and Geology • Samyang & Rokinon Astrophotography • Nature Shoot All the World/ No flowers Wild animal only • Astro Imaging « less

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 9.3 (Macintosh)
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