Milkyway nightscapes

PSteven wrote in post #19418220
Mine is the same - not matter how many times I try to calibrate it, it just never seems to be even vaguely close to reality. I too may try reinstalling and learning how to use it would be helpful too

Photographers Ephemeris is also another good one, works very similar.

Down here in Auckland we have the Sky Tower and we are always looking for the full moon rising up right behind it. The tutorial on youtube for Photopills shows this really well and is a good explanation of how it works. I have to pretty much watch it everytime I want to shoot though lol. Luckily for me, in the tutorial, the shooting spot he chooses is only a few streets from my house
https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=bzw0iFUAWkc&​t=319s

Yeah I've been using their free desktop version...

I'm betting apple did an "update" and it perhaps interfered with pills. Pills worked perfectly until recently...

gaabnz wrote in post #19418416
Photographers Ephemeris is also another good one, works very similar.

Down here in Auckland we have the Sky Tower and we are always looking for the full moon rising up right behind it. The tutorial on youtube for Photopills shows this really well and is a good explanation of how it works. I have to pretty much watch it everytime I want to shoot though lol. Luckily for me, in the tutorial, the shooting spot he chooses is only a few streets from my house
https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=bzw0iFUAWkc&​t=319s

Schonher wrote in post #19417990
I never used the histogram so that would help, thank you!

If you use the same camera and lens as your examples you posted on the previous page, I would suggest using the same camera settings you did before, except the ISO will need to be 3200 or more probably 6400 at your f/3.5 aperture. Also, be in as dark of skies as possible, even if you have to drive a couple of hours to find them. Even if your RAW file comes out what seems to be overexposed, you will likely be able to recover it in Lightroom. Once you get a few decent photos, watch several video tutorials on Youtube regarding how to best edit Milky Way photos. That's how I learned.

edit/add: If the noise at ISO 6400 (or whatever) is too ugly for your liking, you can download the free Sequator software and learn to use that for stacking multiple files, which will reduce the noise in your final photo significantly.

Thank you for that, i appreciate that, I will try that!

LeeRatters wrote in post #19417974
Needs to be the next few weeks though.....!

I think tonight is looking like it has potential

PSteven wrote in post #19419375
I think tonight is looking like it has potential

Yeah, I have been keeping one eye on it!

This is the last photo I took this evening. Just copied to my phone and cropped and selected a preset. Hopefully will have something better to post once download photos to PC and edit

PSteven wrote in post #19419516
This is the last photo I took this evening. Just copied to my phone and cropped and selected a preset. Hopefully will have something better to post once download photos to PC and edit

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Nice. Looks worth the trip!

LeeRatters wrote in post #19419563
Nice. Looks worth the trip!

Thank you . This is a bit better - here I used a program I found called Sequator to stack 5 single 30 second exposures.

PSteven wrote in post #19419639
Thank you . This is a bit better - here I used a program I found called Sequator to stack 5 single 30 second exposures.

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WOW!! So MANY stars visible! WOW!!

PSteven wrote in post #19419639
Thank you . This is a bit better - here I used a program I found called Sequator to stack 5 single 30 second exposures.

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Epic. Well done

markesc wrote in post #19420007

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Masterful

Used a higher iso and got these better looking pictures. The last one I used a purple light to get that effect which was pretty cool IMO

Only my second attempt at the MW and edited with my old version of Lightroom 5.7
Tripod mounted D7500 using a 25 second exposure , 3200 ISO @ f2.4 on my Tokina 11-16 DXII lens.... What could I do to make it better ?