Julie Machado, taken from Coromandel, New Zealand
The spectacular southern sky over the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand is filled with the arch of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and vast glowing complexes of hydrogen in this panorama. The photographer used a Sony mirrorless camera and 35mm lens at f/1.4 and ISO 100 to take this panorama, which consists of nine sky panels, four Hα panels, and 18 foreground panels. Each sky panel s a stack of four 45-second subframes; Hα panels are stacks of three 3-minute subframes.