# @milkywaychasers on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKP2tt9MO0v
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32483891-milkywaychasers-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/58793ab7b8.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-05-29T18:35:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Milky Way Chasers (@milkywaychasers) — https://gondola.cc/milkywaychasers

## Caption

Doug Ingram at Moruya River.

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From Doug about this image:

100 Years Under the Stars
CATEGORY: PANO BLEND
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This river barge would have regularly passed up and down the Moruya River (New South Wales, Australia) a hundred years ago, working as a sand dredge. Dredging the river was essential to the small ships transporting locally quarried granite blocks up the coast to build the pylons of the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge. The waters of Malabar Creek, an offshoot of the river and where the barge now rests and rusts, were perfectly still and flat, giving me a mirror in which the Milky Way’s stars, nebulae and dust lanes were reflected.
A pink glow in the sky at the lower right, from the Aurora Australis, flared up while I was balanced on rocks at the creek’s edge. After taking the seventh and final shot used to create this image, I scurried back to my car and drove to higher ground, hoping to photograph the aurora in more detail. Although the vantage point was only a fifteen-minute drive away, the aurora had faded to a dismal glow when I arrived.
EXIF: Each of the seven photos comprising my vertical panorama was captured with a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera and a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.8, using an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400. The first two photos were blended in Photoshop to highlight the barge’s hulk and the sky, and the resulting image was then stitched with five overlapping frames to make the panorama.

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