Southern Milky Way in the Morning (March 29, 2014)

The southern Milky Way from Aquila at left to Carina at right, with the galactic centre in Sagittarius and Scorpius high in the south at centre. The dark nebulas and lanes in the Milky Way make up the “dark emu” of Australian aboriginal cultures. Venus is rising at lower left. The morning zodiacal light extends up from Venus to the Milky Way.

This is a stack of 2 x 5 minute exposures at f/3.5 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens on the Canon 5D MkII, and tracking the sky on the iOptron Sky Tracker. Taken from Warrumbungles Motel, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, at 4 am on March 29, 2014.