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Summer Milky Way Arch at Cowcowing Lakes, Western Australia by Trevor Dobson Via Flickr: Nikon d810a 35mm ISO 3200 f/1.8 Foreground: 12 x 20 seconds Sky: 26 x 30 seconds H-Alpha: 8 x 60 seconds iOptron SkyTracker This is a 46 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way arch above Cowcowing Lakes, 2.5 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. The red areas are hydrogen alpha emitting regions captured using a 20nm narrow band filter. The airglow this evening was particularly strong while the Large Magellanic Cloud can be seen in the top right corner.

Crux and Carina at Nambung, Western Australia by Trevor Dobson

Summer Milky Way Arch - Quairading, Western Australia by Trevor Dobson Via Flickr: Nikon d810a 50mm ISO 5000 f/2.8 Foreground: 14 x 30 seconds Sky: 50 x 30 seconds iOptron SkyTracker Hoya Red Intensifier filter This is a 64 shot panorama of the summer Milky Way as it arches over Pink Lake near Quairading, 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia. The lake is split in two by the road you see in the middle of the image, at certain times of the year one side of the lake turns pink while the other maintains its muddy brown colour. Prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds to the right, the nearby pink Carina Nebula just below the large deep red h-alpha region called the Gum Nebula. On the left side is the well known Orion nebula surrounded by Barnard's Loop and in the far left bottom corner of the sky are the blue coloured Seven Sisters aka the Pleiades or Subara constellation. There's also quite a bit of airglow, mainly on the right side above the horizon.