Murky Milky Mirror - a photo on Flickriver

Murky Milky Mirror

            Even at night, with only the feeble photons of atmospheric airglow to light the landscape, you can see that the water in this agricultural dam is a very unappealing colour. The still air on the night left the pond's surface undisturbed, offering me a mirrored but muted view of the treeline, the Milky Way and the light coming from the planet Jupiter. Despite the dirtiness of the pool's contents, you can still see some hues of starlight reflected in the water.

The Magellanic Cloud galaxies are conspicuous in the top-left corner of my panorama, keeping station as they travel through the Local Group of galaxies with our marvellous & majestic Milky Way. I've mentioned that Jupiter is one of the lights shining from the dark mirror, and you can see the source of that light in the sky above the dusty stretch of our home galaxy, as well as the planet Saturn up and to the right of Jupiter's bright beacon. It's frustrating that the clouds conspired to keep me from photographing the stars and planets during last weekend's New Moon period. With very few chances left to shoot the Milky Way's core region as the year draws to a close, so I'll be relying on my trove of shots from previous expeditions–like this one–to keep me posting here.

I created this panoramic photo by shooting thirteen overlapping single-frame images, then merging them using stitching software on my Mac. For each of those individual shots, I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera set to an exposure time of 25 seconds @ ISO 6400 and fitted with a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/2.4.

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

Taken on: September 11, 2020

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Astronomy

Astrophotography

Belah Trail Pond

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Braidwood Road

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Jerrawangala National Park

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Large Magellanic Cloud

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Milky Way

Night

Nightscapes

Nowra

Pano

Panorama

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Shoalhaven

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Small Magellanic Cloud

South Coast NSW

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, f/2.5, 25 sec, 14mm, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Lens:	14mm
Aperture:	f/2.5
Exposure Time:	25
Focal Length:	14mm
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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