What you’ll learn in the next 400,000ms (~6min):
-Camera Settings
-How to find the North Star
-How to compose and photograph:
Star Trails (think Starry Night)
Milky Way
Need this to get started!
• Cheap Tripod
• Any DSLR
• Interval Timer Trigger (optional)
Star TrailsRecipeSet camera mode => Manual
Quality => JPEG or RAW
Set camera lens => MF Manual Focus \ VR Off
White Balance => Auto
ISO => 800-4000
Aperture => ~f/1.8 - f/4.0
Shutter => ‘Bulb’
Set Interval Timer => 30 seconds for N times
FOCUS (to infinity)
Use LiveView function to focus on the brightest object (Planet or bright star) to get your camera focused
North Star == Polaris
• START => Activate the timer trigger, camera starts
Create a movie file out of still images in video-editing software Open media as “Image-Sequence”, playback at @24fps or 30fps
Star Trail Photograph
Single Frame
• Stack them in Photoshop using the “muchStars.atn” action-script file, just point it at your folder of images
L I G H T P O L L U T I O N x__X
Dealing with light pollution• Light Pollution Filter - filters out the wavelength of
light emitted by sodium halide lamps (yellow city lights)
• Go on a camping trip :)
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