Samyang lenses are the best for astro, though there QC is a bit rough, so make sure you can return the lens if its for astro only, A star tracker is the best value and give you a massive advantage a £300 budget camera on a star tracker will far out perform a £4000 top of the range camera on a tripod, on a tracker you can expose wide angle 3/4 mins easy with good polar alignment. Get a cheap dslr astro modded ie get the IR cut filter removed all the good stuff in space is sensitive to Ha hydrogen alpha your camera is not.
Wow, very informative video. Absolutely brilliant describing how to do techniques with the big 3 settings. I really learned some new things and some refreshers. The math is what always throws me off. I loved how you covered that part, especially on shutter speed. Thank you so much!!
Useful video, thank you. What I’d really like is a tutorial with editing basics for bringing out the best in a night sky shot, especially the Milky Way. I know people use different editing software so a general guide that can be adapted for Lightroom, Photoshop, PSE 2021 (which I use), Affinity, etc., would be really helpful.
If it helps at all Sue, we've got this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-emHAsO58yco.html&ab_channel=ParkCameras It's all about editing a night sky shot so might be of interest :-)
That's a fantastic tutorial. But I have a question to you. I have Fuji XT4 camera (Crop sensor 1.5). In 500 rule, do i need to convert the focal length of my lens ( eg 14 mm) to full frame equivalent ? Or can I use the same focal length? I read somewhere, for crop sensor camera, the rule says you need to use 333/ focal length= shutter speed in seconds. Please clarify. Thanks.
Don't forget that from late May until middle of July those of us who live in Scotland never get full astronomical darkness.....so realistically we have to wait until August for milky way shots but of course we have lots of really dark skies. Thanks for the tips...by the way when using the 500/400 rule with a crop sensor does this relate to the focal length of the lens or the effective focal length (ie 20 mm * 1.6 for Nikon crop sensors)
