Australia 1998 - Night skies at Uluru

From Worldtraveller

Once the sun goes down, you realise that the sky at Ayer's Rock is awesomely dark. The southern skies are awesomely bright. It's also freezing cold, but I braved the freezing temperatures to take some photos. For me as an astronomer one of the many exciting things about going to Australia was seeing the southern skies, stars and galaxies I'd never seen before, and here in the desert I had my best view by far.

The Rock looms in the distance	The Large Magellanic Cloud trails over Ayer's Rock	Small Magellanic Cloud (the two Clouds are both nearby galaxies)
Centaurus and the Southern Cross	Stars trail around the southern pole	The Small Magellanic Cloud over the Rock
Part of the amazing Southern Milky Way	Star trails (and streetlights) and the Rock	The amazing Milky Way