The southern sky splendours over the OzSky Star Party, with the Milky Way from Vela to Centaurus, including Crux and Carina left of upper centre. The Large Magellanic Cloud is at lower right below Canopus. This section of sky contains a large number of the splendours of the southern hemisphere sky. This is a single tracked 2-minute exposure with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 2500.
The region of sky around the South Celestial Pole, at left, and to the west at right. The two Magellanic Clouds are at centre, the Large one above and the Small Cloud below. The bright star Archernar is at top. At left is the southern Milky Way including Carina, Crux and Centaurus. The Carina Nebula is at upper left with the Southern Cross Below it and Alpha and Beta Centauri rising above the trees. The house is the Tibuc Gardens Cottage, my residence for my 2016 Australia astrophoto excursion. Yes, I left the light on! This is a stack of 5 x 1.5-minute exposures at f/2.8 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200, with the ground coming from one of the tracked exposures to minimize trailing.
