Summer Milky Way Arch at Cowcowing Lakes, Western Australia

            Nikon d810a
50mm
ISO 6400
f/2.8
Foreground: 20 x 30 seconds
Sky: 58 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter

This is a 78 shot panorama of the non-core region of the Milky Way, visible over the summer months in the Southern Hemisphere, as it arches over the dry salt surface of a peripheral lake in the Cowcowing Lakes system, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia.

I was hoping for a patchwork of pressure ridges, similar to what you would see in Death Valley or the Bolivian Salt Flats but the surface was mostly flat, with long lines of quite large ridges across the surface. You can see me in the distance at the intersecting lines of two ridges.

Prominent in this image is the Large Magellanic Cloud in the top right corner. Diagonally left is the pink Carina Nebula, just above Crux aka the Southern Cross. The large red region a little further up is the H-Alpha emitting Gum Nebula. On the left is Orion and Barnard's Loop with the California Nebula just visible behind the airglow above the horizon.
   

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

Taken on: February 18, 2023

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