You do not need to use the latest mirrorless camera to photograph the Milky Way, even a 10-year-old, entry-level DSLR camera is capable of a beautiful shot. As is the case with most astrophotography projects, th
At the beginning of the 20th century, astronomers thought the Milky Way encompassed the entire universe. During the past century, as astronomical understanding has raced ahead to decipher the evolution of stars, other galaxies, and the universe itself, the Milky Way has given up its secrets only...
What does theMilky Waylook like? Not like any of the photographs you see online, because those are made with cameras that accumulate light in ways the human eye cannot. What you will see is a faint, whitish glow, stretching in a huge arc from the southern to northeastern horizon. It has...
Thanks to Photoshop that we can now enhance the data that were recorded in the RAW file to unveil the beautiful Milky Way galaxy which we can’t see with our naked eyes in Singapore. But does Photoshop make the Sentosa image above any less real? There are definitely many ways to achieve ...
The moon can have a similar impact on your Milky Way photos; shooting during a full moon will wash out your images. Try to shoot during a new moon or on days when the moon rises really late. 2. Know When And Where To Look
and look at more than just the color zone. The milky way rises in the southeast, crosses the southern horizon, and then sets in the southwest. So you will want to choose a viewing site that does not have any major cities in that direction. Even if the sky overhead is very dark, a...
In fact, that will be the fate of our own sun in roughly 5 billion years. But how quickly does the night sky change, and in our galaxy, the Milky Way, how many stars die each year? According to James De Buizer, a research scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (...
The other real-world question is if the ZV-E1 can clairvoyantly keep everything in focus all by itself as well as iPhone does. When we shoot anything in Hollywood it's always all manual focus, with one guy, the focus puller, in charge of nothing but pulling focus back and forth betwee...
Common conventions help cartographers present all this information in a way that makes sense. We'll look at them in more detail in the next section. Contents Cartography Conventions Map Projections Mapping Techniques Thematic Maps The Mapmaking Process Online Maps The Role of GPS in Mod...
is thenwaning. The Moon rises in the East and Sets in the West every night, just like the Sun. Once we understand these Moon Phases, we can then apply it to our Core timing we learned above and thus realize that it does not always need to be New Moon to shoot the Milky Way Core...