Milky Way at the Stirling Ranges National Park, Western Australia

            Nikon d5500 
50mm 
ISO 5000 
f/2.5 
147 x 8s 
Hoya Red Intensifier filter

This is a 147 shot panorama of the Milky Way over the Stirling Ranges National Park about 400km south of Perth and home to one of the state's highest peaks in Bluff Knoll. The night sky here is rated as Bortle 1, the darkest on the scale.

I had so much trouble trying to get this to stitch together, which I referenced in an earlier post, but I finally managed to pull it off all these months later and even though the result isn't perfect I am happy with it. Many of the brighter stars had their light diffused by the thin cloud layer that drifted across the sky as I was shooting and is visible in various parts of the image.
   

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Taken in: Australia / Western Australia (show map)

Taken on: May 13, 2018

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Camera: f/2.5, 8 sec, ISO 5000 (more info) (hide info)

Aperture:	f/2.5
Exposure Time:	8
ISO:	5000
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows)
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