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Not from 'round here

            Nearly everything you see while looking at a cloud-free night sky is in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The Moon and the naked-eye visible planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) are neighbours of our Earth in the Solar System. Beyond these local friends, every star–from bright Sirius to those only visible using averted vision–is a more distant member of our local community. You can count the naked-eye objects located beyond the solar system on one hand (even a Simpson’s hand). 

Two of these extra-galactic companions are visible year-round from where I live in the Southern Hemisphere. Named for the explorer on whose round-the-world voyage western eyes first saw them, the “Magellanic Clouds” are dwarf galaxies travelling with the Milky Way as we orbit in the Local Group of galaxies. I photographed the wispy wonders in the pre-dawn sky at Narooma, Australia, in late January 2023. 

To create this scene, I shot fifteen single-frame photos (10x light and 5x dark, for those who care) and used the app Starry Landscape Stacker to reduce digital noise in the final image. For each of those individual shots, I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera and a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/2.2, opening the shutter for 13 seconds @ ISO 6400.

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

Taken on: January 28, 2023

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Groups appears in: • BBC Sky at Night and Stargazing Live • Amateur Astro-Photography more » • PhotographingSpace.com • Yes you can see the Milky Way « less

Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, f/2.2, 13 sec, 35mm, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Lens:	35mm F1.4 DG HSM \| Art 012
Aperture:	f/2.2
Exposure Time:	13
Focal Length:	35mm
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:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.1 (Macintosh)
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