Don’t know what you’re talking about. All you have to do is drive away from big cities. An hour long drive from where I live is all it takes. There’s a lot of places with low light pollution. More than you’d think.
Look up light pollution maps online to look for a good spot. A lot of farm areas are good but not perfect. If you’re out west in the US you’ll find on decently close by. As for the east coast, Spruce knob mountain in West Virginia is the best place with no light light pollution.
2 weeks ago we had the first cloud free sky in weeks. I took the first ever night sky shot from my backyard, near Manila, which is extremely light polluted. I saw only 5-6 Stars with my naked eye. Afterwards I had the whole sky full of stars. After editing I couldn't believe how nice it looked. Can't wait to go to the beach far away from any town to take more shots. And my cam is Canon M50 Mark II with 15-45mm kit lense. I think the 50mm 1.8 that I just bought is too narrow.
I decided to point my camera at the Milky Way to see what would happen. I already got the big panorama and was just messing around. Cheap camera and a cheap lens with free stacking software got me a decent picture with little effort. A short drive outside the city is all it takes.
Thanks for putting up the settings. I'll try this with my Canon R10. Worth noting also, good to have some kind of demister as the lens may fog up. Also if the camera is not weatherproof, best to wait until the warmer months to prevent moisture damaging the camera.
I pretty much live in a swamp so I have to worry about moisture on my equipment year-round. I always have dew heater bands on my lenses and telescopes. They are a life saver!
Fight the good fight Walt. FYI, it’s working. I started with a used dslr and tripod a year ago and now my auto guiding equipment shows up today actually. M101 time!
Sad to say, for most of us, a dark sky area with low light pollution is a multi-hour drive -- and it's getting worse every year, as what were once remote, unpopulated areas become filled with money-making enterprises that feel the need to operate night lighting that isn't controlled to put the light where it's actually needed.
I have a canon rebel Eos T100 and I went out to take photos - drove 2 hours - sky was beautiful but all I got was a black photo. I think it depends on the type of cheap camera. I did follow manual settings everyone says to do.
I still haven't had any clear skies since my trip to the desert. That video comes out today. But besides that, might as well make shorts out of old content!
i have tried similar settings and have never been able to do this (i live in the middle of no where so no light pollution and i’ve tried with no clouds)
I think you might need to take 3 separate photos with different focus distance. One for foreground, mid and then the sky. Then use photoshop to stack them so that everything is sharp in that photo
It was not! If you could actually see it on the computer screen it looks pretty bad. It was noisy and full of problems. Most of the stars had magenta halos due to the cheap lens. And the temperature was actually quite orange.
It is indeed a kit lens. Not all kit lenses are made the same. For example I also have a 75-300mm kit lens. My friend has a much older camera that came with a 75-200mm lens.
@@craftyrouze i did zoom out but my aperture on my 800ds 18-55 starts at f4 so that's the lowest it gets , I'm a experienced photographer per se but I wanted to play with my kit lens but wasn't able to understand why your kit lens has a lower aperture
@astroduck The Milky Way is a Disk we are located inside the disk when we look towards the core. You can’t actually see the core because there are so many stars in the way
@@Astroduck44- means, our galaxy is a spiral galaxy with many arms, earth and our solar system is almost on the outer edge in one of the arms. What we see is the dust lanes of one of the arms and not the core. ( center) of our galaxy as it is obstructed by the inner arms that has too many densely packed stars and the galactic dust itself. Technically seeing the core means you would be seeing the event horizon disc of the giant black hole Sagittarius A* that holds the Milky Way together!
The people who live where there’s no light pollution either already know this, or don’t care. That’s *not* a cheap camera for someone who has no interest in photography - their phone is a cheap camera - relatively speaking. Join us next week and I’ll tell you how to tune a 0-3000amu Tandem Quad Mass Spectrometer 👍😉
My Sony a6400 and my wife's Sony ZV-E10 both cost less than either of our phones. You can also get a "cheap" canon camera for around $400 or less on the used market. Which again is almost always less than half the cost of people's "cheap" phones. Just saying I didn't know this, even still it helps motivate some to go out and attempt it. Which is success in of itself.
