Southern Cross and Eta Carinae Nebula as Viewed from The Bush - Australia

Always amazed at the incredible number of distance starlight a camera can capture under clear skies in an ultra low light pollution area. Thought EarthSky readers would like to see the night sky full of stars from a Southern Hemisphere point of view. Especially the famous Southern Cross and "close-by" Eta Carinae Nebula, Southern Pleiades, NGC 3532 (Wishing Well Cluster), NGC 3114 open cluster, Lamba Centauri Cluster to list a few "neighbors".

Nikon D700 using NIKKOR 85mm 1:1.4G mounted on Manfrotto 322RC2 tripod
Camera was set on 3s delay, 5s exposure f1.4 ISO 640 and WB A1
File stored as RAW

Simply loaded RAW file into Nikon NX Studio 1.10.1 and adjusted Exposure and Contrast, slight Noise Reduction and Sharpness.