Hanging Rock Milkyway

Looking for rock jokes? Let’s see what I can dig up.

So I could go on with the spiel on how this has been all planned out and the tides aligned with the seashells blah blah , but I’ll save those keyboard strokes for something better

During the first half of the milkyway season the core of the milkyway rises thru the gap at hanging rock at a reasonable time, basically just on dark night time, in this case around 6:30 pm. So it makes it a reasonable proposition to get to the rock and back out again at a reasonable hour, which is kinda key since its a bit of trek in.

It was a bit f-ing windy so not many shots on the edge of the cliff, its freaky enough here during the daytime on the edge, but in a pitch black night with the wind gusting I opted for not ending up on the channel 9 news.

This shot is panorama of 9 horizontally oriented shots to give the perspective from the ground right up to the sky directly above. I dunno whether the streaks are meteorites or satellites probably both.

9 shots using the Viltrox 16mm f1.8 , ISO 1600, 13 sec.

The orange glow on the horizon is the lights from the Sydney basin.

If your looking to go here, take your pushbike its a easy 20 minute ride in followed by 15 minute walk and about a 15 minute walk out followed by a 30 minute ride since its more uphill on the way out. Watch the edge of the cliff, the path is close to it and unless ya got a wingsuit and a pray its all over.

Also known as Burramoko Ridge and Baltzers Lookout