Milky Way at Quairading, Western Australia

            Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 4000
f/2.8
Foreground: 13 x 20 seconds
Sky: 55 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker

This is a 68 shot panorama of the Milky Way setting over a small unnamed lake near Quairading, about 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.

I originally planned on going straight to another nearby location but made a last minute decision to detour here. The triangular strip of land in the central foreground is actually the road that normally passes through this lake but with heavy winter rains in the state it has been flooded over. To this point the night had been very calm with almost no wind but there was a steady breeze here rippling the surface of the lake creating a smooth texture due to the long exposure. 

Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds to the left and the North America Nebula just above the horizon on the far right. The light pollution in the centre is from the Wheatbelt town of Quairading about 5km to the west.
   

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Taken in: Australia / West Coast / Badjaling (show map)

Taken on: September 6, 2021

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