On Its End At The End Of My Night - a photo on Flickriver

            I know these vertical panoramas don’t work so well on some social media platforms, but I find it hard to pass up the chance to get photos of the Milky Way when it’s standing on end as I captured it on a cold and clear night in June of 2023. Midnight was only minutes away as I shot the eight frames I combined to create this tall, narrow image. 

Although the sky looked cloudless, my camera caught some thin cloud near the horizon that mixed green atmospheric airglow with the fading crimsons near the horizon, the last gasp of this night’s auroral activity. Those blended hues add extra interest to the sky while not distracting from the splendour of the number of stars visible in this dark sky location between Braidwood and Cooma in New South Wales, Australia.

In actuality, I shot nine photos to create this panorama, using a technique called “focus stacking” so that the grasses and fence in the foreground were as in focus as the starry sky above. I used my Canon EOS 6D camera and a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/1.6 mounted on a Nodal Ninja 3 panoramic head for each of those nine photos. The exposure time was 13.0 seconds per shot, with the camera’s ISO set to 6400.

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

Taken on: June 16, 2023

Tags:

Astronomy

Astrophotography

Autopano Pro

Braidwood

Captains Flat

Galactic Core

History

Milky Way

Monaro

Nature

Night

Nightscape Photography

Nightscapes

Outdoors

Pano

Panorama

Panoramic

Panos

Rails

Railway

Science

Skies

Sky

Sleepers

Stars

Stitch

Tracks

Train

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Sets appears in: • Nightscapes • Panoramas

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

Camera: Canon EOS 6D, f/1.6, 13 sec, 35mm, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D
Lens:	35mm F1.4 DG HSM \| Art 012
Aperture:	f/1.6
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:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.5 (Macintosh)
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