Wow, what a cool picture! What's the name of that galaxy?
Rod
M51, or the Whirlpool Galaxy. Apparently one galaxy is up there feeding on another. It is roughly above the handle part of the big dipper....
Scott. Do it wrong some more. Nice work.
I have great views of the Milky Way outside my new home. Soon I hope to try to capture it in my camera. Any advice for exposure. I have I Nikon D7100 and fixed focal length and zoom lenses.
Milky Way stuff is fairly easy. Tripod, camera, wide lens that is fairly 'fast'(think f/2.8 or f/4 on the slow side). Point at Milky Way and take a bunch of 20-30 second exposures(ISO800). "Stretch" in Photoshop using the 'levels/curves'(you can find this on youtube).
Man, I love astrophotography!!
After many attempts, I finally got images of the Milky Way. In retrospect, I don't know what the heck I was doing to fail so badly previously, but I finally got it. I was very excited.
Posted below are a couple of links I found just now, the one on Fstoppers is one I like. I posted these only because someone asked "how", so this should get you started...
Now, THAT MOON IMAGE IS OFF THE CHART!!! Man, I love that!
THE HECK WITH THE CRITICS... DO WHAT YA LOVE!!
https://fstoppers.com/composite/few-tips-astrophotography-and-how-capture-stars-night-116479
How-To: Astrophotography 101 | Popular Photography
Thanks. The Moon was sort of cheating photography.....it's called 'lucky imaging'. The term comes from using a Y800 uncompressed video of about 1000 frames, stacked in AS!2..... basically, the program picks out the 'best' images and stacks them into one jpeg(or tiff) image for 'working on'.
Scott (getting cooler....time to get outside and look up) B