Milky Way, Comet A3 & the Magellanic Clouds at Lake Clifton, Western Australia

🌟 By Trevor Dobson 🔎 " Nikon d810a 50mm ISO 4000 f/1.8 Foreground: 13 x 20 seconds Sky: 35 x 20 seconds H-Alpha: 10 x 60 seconds iOptron SkyTracker

This is a 58 shot panorama of the Milky Way, Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) & the Magellanic Clouds above the boardwalk of Lake Clifton, one hour south of Perth in Western Australia.

Lake Clifton is known as one of the few places on Earth where you can find ‘living’ Thrombolites and you can see them under the water to the right of the boardwalk. Venus is the other prominent feature in the sky, again enveloped in the Zodiacal Light and reflecting brightly off the water, which on this night was getting whipped up by a decently strong breeze that forced me to shoot with 20 second exposures rather than my usual 30 seconds. The two sources of light pollution are from the state’s second largest city, Bunbury, on the left, around 90km south and from the nearby city of Mandurah on the right, about 20km north. " 🗨️ Drop a comment below !