Carina of Mt Tollbrunup

As the sun was setting over the Stirling Ranges the entire sky was covered in cloud, but the forecast showed that the night sky was going to clear up at around 8pm. So I took a chance to go out to the ranges, and picked a spot to shoot at Mount Toolbrunup facing towards the south to get the Carina Nebula and the Southern Cross circling over the mountain. As luck would have it, the forecast was dead-on and the sky cleared for me to do one or more nightscape shots. However, my primary goal for the night was to do a timelapse, which will come out later.

In this shot, Mt Toolbrunup stands illuminated under a 36% moon which also made the sky glow bright - but not so much that I still couldn't capture the fantastic Carina nebula that dominates the centre of the photo. The moon also made the clouds glow earlier on in the night so the timelapse should be interesting.

This stitched image of 15 photos (but severely cropped) was taken with a modified Canon EOS6D camera through a Canon 85mm f/1.2 lens. Each photo frame was taken immediately after the other, and all camera and lens settings were fixed throughout. A tracking mount was used for the sky frames.

| IMG_2253 | 2021-08-14 | Stirling Ranges, Western Australia | EOS6D modified | Canon 85mm f1.2 lens | @f/2.8 | IDAS cut-filter | ISO800 | 30s | 15 x panels | Skywatcher StarAdventurer mount |