The Official Shoot the Milky Way Thread

[GlimmerMan_v2.0]

Another star trails attempt. I got the interval wrong so the trails are choppy, but lower ISO helped maintain the color in the stars. I aimed at the Milky Way instead of the opposite direction so have ghosting through the image.
And, I'm not great at blending but had to add the foreground in PP (which was photographed at 2 in the afternoon the following day). <sigh>. It's a tough business shooting the star trails and the Milky Way. 2 attempts per year is a slow slow learning curve.

(2025-0503)-PRanch-DavisMtnSP-0019 copy by S. Nobody, on Flickr

 

[Dennis]

Very nice - great shot(s) straddling the Celestial Equator to show the N vs S star trails.

Dennis

 

[AdeR]

Single exposure from the driveway at home.

 

[AdeR]

Some aurora activity and milky way peeking through the clouds on the night of 1 June....

 

[S.R.M.]

I recently picked up the Canon RF 16-28mm f2.8 IS STM lens, and had a chance earlier this week to test it out on the Milky Way. This is a single untracked 20 sec exposure at f/2.8 and 3200 iso with the EOS R.
It's probably not the best lens out there for astrophotography, but it doesn't do a terrible job.

Milky Way test with RF 16-28mm F2.8 IS STM by Stephen Mudge, on Flickr

 

[Grand Dad]

Mount Laguna, east of San Diego, CA.

 

[GeoffSFAs10]

Good stuff! For focus, switch the lens to manual mode. Then, put the camera into live view and max magnification and use the lens focus ring to get the star points as small and sharp as possible. Then, basically don’t touch the lens again. Some people like to put a piece of scotch tape to make sure the lens doesn’t get jolted accidentally bumped out of focus but I’ve never found a need for that.

So thats the trick!!! i've been struggling with this on the mirrorless bodies and lenses that dont have the scaler on the outside of them.

 

[Kukulkan]

 

[DavidWatts]

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Perfect!

 

[Kukulkan]

Perfect!

Thank you

 

[phughes]

Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania

 

[Kukulkan]