Leaving for greater Himalayas on June 3rd, your Milky way calander helped alot for astro photography. I am noob since it's going to be an high altitude trek won't be carrying DSLR, just use mobile cam.
When people say and show pictures of the milky way, for example all the sample images shown in this video, what are we actually looking at? Are we looking at the middle? Like the core? For example the 2d images of how our galaxy looks (spiral) we're looking at the "black hole" in the middle ? Is this what we see in the compositions?
Thank you! This is a brilliant explanation. Regret that I came to know about the calendar only now. REQUEST: Could you please include a 26 degrees location, Bahrain, in the Middle-East, in next year's calendar? Please note that there is a lot of light pollution here.
I am from India Want to shoot Milky Way at Ladakh India Latitude is 33 N . Which calendar to follow ? I am planning for 2023 may June , when your calendar for 2023 will be released ?
going to the Badlands in May - per your chart we should be able to see the Milkway - taking my parents who are 80- hopefully i will get a few good photos
Thank you for creating these calendars. It really helped me plan and get started with my astrophotography. Will these calendars change a lot in 2024 ? If so, when will you release the 2024 calendar?
Thanks! The calendars completely change from year to year. We always release them on Capture the Atlas on the first Sunday of the new year! Hope it helps plan great photos in 2024!
@@CapturetheAtlas thank you so much. Because of your calendar, I was finally able to realise my dream of doing astrophotography. Great work and wishing you even more success
Thanks for creating these calendars - just starting out in MW photography so this will be an invaluable resource. I note that you have a Sydney calendar, but any chance of a Melbourne, Australia one which is about another 4 degrees south in Latitude?
I only come across you as I was researching on astrophotography. Excellent work. I would like to know you mentioned 2 days before and after the date on the calendar are good days for shooting the Milky Way in the youtube video. What about April 13, which means April 14 and 15 will be good days. But what if we can only arrive Cherry Springs on the day of April 16, which I assume it will be the early hours of April 17 when the sun set on April 17? Alternatively, would you have any suggestions on where to go for Milky Way photoshooting if we are in Boston on the day of Apr 15 and then where is the nearest spot to go for Miky Way photoshooting on Apr 16? Thanks a lot
As a rule is 2 days before and after but sometimes it can be extended longer, it depends on location and time of year. For those details I recommend checking an app like Photopills.
Dan, Thanks for creating the calendars. I previously used one when photographing in Idaho. I plan to be in the Masai Mara part of Kenya (Lat. 1.4937 degrees South, 35.1432 degrees E) around August 12 of this year. I looked at the Bali, Indonesia and Bogota, Columbia calendars. Since Kenya is quite far from these locations, are they still the best calendars to use or would you suggest a different, special calendar? Thanks for your help.
I truly wish that you could/would create an application for one's smart phone, that would allow for easy access to astrophotography map, tools, and your videos. Something that would allow the user to use their location on the phone, which allows the application to let the user know the best time and day in their given area to photograph certain parts of the sky. Maybe it could be a Mashup of Google sky or 'starwalk', magic viewfinder, and a tethered shooting app.
That's a great idea but it'd take a lot of time and resources to develop. For now we'll keep on launching yearly calendars which already take a considerable amount of work.
Best days are days with more than 4 hours of visibility, which there aren't in the UK. Still, there are days, marked in light blue, where it's perfectly possible to shoot the MW in the UK!
Thanks so much for the video. Quick follow up question: When looking at the calendar, if it shows the date such as 2-Apr then has the following info for sunset, sunrise, etc, are the times listed for viewing from between 1:38 to 5:59 that are technically on 3-Apr, or those occur on 2-Apr, and need to be in place on the first of April? I hope this makes sense. I just want to clarify so I don't miss out. Thanks!
Caelin, Always consider the reference dates as the nights from Saturday to Sunday. In any case, as I explained in the video, you can take two days before/after as a reference, so the Milky Way visibility time will barely vary from one day to another in those good and best days ;)
Thank you for the calendar. Unfortunately our area isn''t covered. My location's latitude is 26.8598 ° S. I have downloaded the calendar for Sydney Australia and hope it's near enough.
...there's also the weather. The Dark Sky society named 2 locations near enough to where I live, and it's really exciting, but it's always cloudy and/or raining on the most ideal days to see the milky way. When the weather report says partly cloudy or cloudy, can you still see it? Can you see it if it's raining? Any thoughts are helpful.
Thank you so much for the calendar resources! I have 2 quick questions 1. The times listed on the calendar, are those local time zones for the area chosen? Or, as long as you stay at that latitude, the timing always works for the local time zone? 2. I am curious if the Milky Way is visible from the north shore of Oahu... I looked and that latitude is 21.4N, so I downloaded Toluca, Mexico (20N) and Kolkata, India (23N) to get an idea.... but then the question arose regarding timing/time zones. Thanks!
Beth, 1. All times are based on local time zones, but they will match most latitudes and the Milky Way visibility will be at the same time . Bear in mind that things like DST (Daylight savings time) are at different times depending on the location. 2. For Oahu, you can perfectly use the Calendar for Toluca; it's at a similar latitude and the same local times will apply in Hawaii.
@@CapturetheAtlas Do I understand correctly that the calendars DO take into account daylight savings time or is everything based on standard time and we need to adjust accordingly?
Thanks Dan! Super helpful. I have a couple followup questions: 1. the MW times and GC times don't match what is in Photopills (they vary by about 30 min.) for the same location. Is there a simple way to know which is more accurate? (note: I used Death Valley as a test). 2. In early March, there are days will virtually no moon and yet there are no days/weeks highlighted as 'best time'. Give the core is visible for 2.5 hours on those dates, is there a reason they don't get the same recommendation as April?
David, 1. Death Valley is a vast National Park in terms of extension and the exact point inside the park can vary the Milky Way visibility a few minutes. I took Furnace Creek as a reference) 2. I only highlight the best days as those with 3+ hours of Milky Way visibility but you can perfectly shoot the Galactic core in any of the other days marked in light blue where there's some visibility. I hope the calendar helps! Dan
As explained in the video, it depends on your exact location in Oman. Taking the capital as a reference, the closest calendar in terms of latitude is Bangkok so your best Calendar will be Southeast Asia.
Is the milky way photography more attached to longitude or latitude? If I'm in the middle of Canada, do I go with the Banff info on the same Latitude or do I want a place in the US on the same Longitude? Thanks!
PLEASE kill the music while you are talking! Very distracting and makes it harder to understand you. Music is fine when you are just showing slideshows, but not when talking...
There's a Calendar for the East Coast (PA). For the Southeastm you can use a calendar for a similar latitude like Southwest, South, etc depending on your latitude. Everything is explained in the video
