Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Spring Milky Way, Rodney Watters

Spring Milky Way

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://flic.kr/p/T5oi2N
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Spring Milky Way, Rodney Watters

Spring Milky Way

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://flic.kr/p/T5oi2N

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Description

A very wide field view of the southern Milky Way taken September 2018 at the start of the southern hemisphere spring. Image is panorama consisting of 2 rows of 7 panels each.

This was taken in the central west of NSW, Australia near the town of Nyngan. Location was about 15kms from Nyngan looking west towards the town and the setting Milky Way. We can see the planet Mars very proud and centre of the field of view and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in the top left. The bright object next to the SMC is the globular cluster, 47 Tucana.

Data captured with a Canon 60Da DSLR and Samyang 14mm lens.

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Spring Milky Way, Rodney Watters