Milky Way, Large & Small Magellanic Cloud Galaxies over Western Australia

Milky Way, Large & Small Magellanic Cloud Galaxies over Western Australia

Astrophotographer Trevor Dobson: "This is a 39 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising above a lone tree on a farm at Contine, 1.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia. Prominent in this image are the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds to the right, small satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. Just right of centre at the very top is the pink coloured Carina Nebula, while just below that is the dark CoalSack Nebula with Crux (Southern Cross) to its immediate left."

"I used an h-alpha filter to highlight the various red coloured hydrogen alpha emitting regions, most prominent in and around the core area on the left."

The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy.

Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, another satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy.

Technical details:

Nikon d810a 50mm, ISO 3200, f/3.2

Foreground: 6 x 15 seconds

Sky: 25 x 30 seconds

H-Alpha: 8 x 60 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

Image Date: March 10, 2024

Release Date: June 8, 2024

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