A single-image ultra-wide sweep of the southern Milky Way from Crux, the Southern Cross (at right) to Aquila (at far left) with the centre of the Galaxy in Sagittarius and Scorpius at centre of frame. The image takes in all of the legendary "Dark Emu" constellation of Australian aboriginal lore, with his head in the Coal Sak dark nebula t right, his neck in the dark rift running from Centaurus to Scorpius, and is body in the large glowing mass of stars and dark nebulas around the galactic core. His feet and tail are in the dark tendrils at left of frame. The faint vertical glow at left running from bottomt to top is the Zodiacal Light and Zodiacal Band. This was taken at about 4 a.m. local time in the pre-dawn sky with the Milky Way high in the east and to the south. Saturn in Libra is at upper left of centre. This is a stack of 7 x 5 minute exposures at f/2.8 with the Rokinon 14mm lens on the Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 1600. An 8th image taken at the end of the sequence when the lens was fogged with dew was layered in to add the star glows.
The southern Milky Way from Vela (at right) to Centaurus (at left), with the False Cross at left, the trus Southern Cross at right of centre, and Alpha and Beta Centauri at left. The star cluster at lower right is NGC 2516. Omega Centauri is at upper left. The Coal Sack is left of the Southern Cross. This is a stack of 3 x 3 minute exposures at f/2.8 with the 35mm Canon L-series prime lens, and filter-modified Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 800, plus an exposure taken through the Kenko Softon filter for the star glows. Taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, April 2014.
An observer gazing into the southern stars with a large reflector telescope at the 2014 OzSky Star Safari star party near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, March 2014. The Southern Cros and Coal Sack are in the sky behind the observer. This is a single untracked 10-second exposure at f/1.4 with the 35mm lens and Canon 60Da at ISO 3200.
