The southern Milky Way and galactic centre rising on an April night in Australia, with the Dark Emu rising and now cleared the trees with hsi head, neck and body visible. Scorpius has risen. The faint glow at left is the Zodiacal Band. While it looks like the Milky Way is casting light across the ground, the bright ground is from lights from a nearby house on briefly for a few seconds. This is a stack of 8 x 45-second exposures for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise, and one 45-second untracked exposure for the sky, all with the Rokinon 14m lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D at ISO 3200. Taken as part of a 500-frame time-lapse sequence.
The waning quarter Moon, overexposed here, below the galactic centre as the Milky Way in Sagittarius and Scorpius rises in the east as seen from Australia, at latitude 32° South. Some clouds are moving in. The sky is blue from the moonlight. This is a single frame from the end of a 500-frame time-lapse sequence, each frame 40 seconds at f/2.5 with the Rokinon 14m lens and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
The Southern Cross (Crux), the Pointer Stars (Alpha and Beta Centauri) and the stars of Carina (at top) rising in the moonlit sky over the sea stacks at the eastern end of the Twelve Apostle sea stack formation, on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia. This was April 12, 2017 on a very clear night. The Moon, a day past full, is rising off frame at left, brightening the sky and lighting the landscape and seascape. This is a stack of 8 x 13-second exposures for the ground and sea, mean combined, to smooth noise and further blur the waves, plus one 13-second exposure for the sky. All at f/2.5 with the 14mm Rokinon lens and Canon 6D at ISO 800.
