When I attempted to Stitch multiple images together using the next lines of Open CV code but it failed

I am trying to use SIFT (with OpenCV and Python) to detect key features in two images: image 1 and image 2.

I need to highlight the key features on both images to then further stitch them together.
Looking at the image visually, there are multiple key features that are visibly repeated between the two images (e.g. all the wires in the back).
However, due to the extremely bright line down the center of the images and the similar contrast between the background and the features, I have not been able to correctly detect the key features and then stitch the images together.