For this tutorial, you will need a solid tripod and an app that controls your shutter speed, ISO, and aperture. We haven’t found a free app that does this successfully, but two inexpensive apps for photographing the Milky Way with your iPhone are Slow Shutter Cam and Night Cap. If you...
The photo looks a little bit flat so the next adjustment is boosting the contrast a little bit. The change is subtle but it should bring out a little more detail in the Milky Way. Depending on how you adjusted your exposure at the start of the tutorial, you might find that increasing c...
The Milky Way is best photographed during the darkest period of night between the end of astronomical dusk and the beginning of astronomical dawn. On either side of that is nautical twilight and blue hour, where only the brightest stars and a few planets are prominent but the Milky Way will ...
Below, is a photo of the Milky Way towards the constellationCygnusand the ‘Great Rift’. I used the Rokinon 14mm F/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera (tracked and stacked) for this photo. This area of the Milky Way is less dense than the core, but it contains some of my f...
Crucially, this sample includes not only some of the oldest stars that were formed inside the Galaxy but also stars formed externally and subsequently accreted onto the Milky Way. Leveraging this resolution in age, we provide compelling evidence in favour of models in which the Galaxy had already...
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t one right way to process your photograph but I’ve put together a new video tutorial to walk through the complete post-processing workflow that I use on nearly every single one of my Milky Way photographs. It’s very simple and straight forward and should give you a quick way to ...
I suppose the thought of pushing any given type of gear to its limit really interests me. I always want to see what’s possible with the simplest of equipment and I feel that trying to shoot the Milky Way with a smartphone is sort of the holy grail version of that idea. I think that...