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Night is the period of time between the sunset and the sunrise when the Sun is below the horizon. This occurs after dusk. The start and end times of a night vary based on factors such as season, latitude, longitude and timezone. Night is also the period when astrophotography can take place, recording images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky.

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Nikon D5000: Timelapse / night photography: why does auto exposure have a max of around 3 seconds?

I am trying to make timelapses all day and night long using gphoto2. I am making a picture every 2 minutes. When looking to the results at night, I see very black pictures, sometimes there are some ...
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How can I take good photos of stars out of a cockpit window using the Samsung 21 ultra?

I am an airline pilot and as the winter is coming and we get nice clear nights I am seeing masses of stars out the flight deck windows. At night we have dim lighting in the flight deck and when I try ...
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How to create a fake long exposure from a bunch of frames

I made several frame screenshots at one angle and I want to join them into a long exposure shot similar to those pictures of night traffic. Like this example. But I can't get my head around, how to ...
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How can I use a Ricoh 35 FM film rangefinder to take photographs at night?

Recently I thrifted a cool little rangefinder camera: a Ricoh 35 FM. I am new to photography, and am planning on shooting in the night. However, the camera does not have as many settings to change as ...
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What are these disks in my photo taken with the Tamron 10-24 lens?

I am starting to dabble in night photography, so I just bought a lens (Tamron 10-24) and checked it out last night. Please take a look at the photos and help me determine if I have now recorded UFO's ...
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Astrophotography - Image quality reduced after multiple long exposures

I'm currently using NIKON D5600 for my untracked astrophotography, and depends on the target I need to take up to 100 exposures of 15-20 seconds each. I have a manual shutter remote and I manually ...
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Is there a way to get rid of this glowing effect?

I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of the glow around the tree in the bottom right. I've gotten as far as thinking it's some form of luminosity due to reflections at ground level (this is in my ...
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Why did my night pictures turned out so foggy, light or too bright?

I received my developed pictures and many of them are foggy. It seems that some shot with similar light is foggier than the others. Can it be that something went wrong in the development process, is ...
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Errant lights in long exposure at night

I've been trying to get some images of the milky way. I was is central Sardegna near some neolithic ruins as a backdrop. A few images had this odd squiggles of light. Not every frame has it. It's ...
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Not able to manual focus in night for star photography

I was shooting at f4.5 shutter speed 30s for capturing stars in my photo but was not able to manual focus as we can't set the manual focus for stars. I am using a 18-55mm Nikkor lens, what I get after ...
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Why are my photo's not so sharp even when using a tripod?

I took the following photos yesterday to capture the shades of sunset skies. However, I am utterly disappointed with the sharpness of the overall pictures (areas in shadows particularly very soft) and ...
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Circular Pattern in Night Sky Image

A few days ago I took a night sky image of the milky way with my XPERIA 1 II and wanted to take a closer look at the RAW file in Lightroom Mobile. When doing so, I realised a strange circular pattern. ...
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What materials absorb or block infrared wavelengths?

I'm not exactly doing pro photography here; please forgive me. My baby monitor is mounted in a corner. It shines bright IR at night, and the walls are highly reflective, and I can barely see into the ...
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I'm trying to take a photo of the stars however it's either white or black

I have a Canon EOS 2000D with a Tamron AF 70-300mm, EFS 18-55mm and a 500mm & 1000mm manual lenses; I have it set on bulb for long exposure, F5.6 which is the smallest aperture, ISO I've tried ...
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I want to take photo of moon with my mobile camera?

I tried taking pic of moon with my mobile camera, i tried auto mode and manual mode also. but its not clear. what are different option or addition tool required.
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