Questions tagged [stars]
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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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What causes stars to appear like this?
What causes stars to appear as strange blobs sometimes as in this image?
Source: Nikon P900 Stars- Real Stars and Planets vs NASA images. Stars are not what they tell us!
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Stars at night without long shutter speed lines
I've seen breathtaking milky way photos that have no trail/streaks which of course I always get when shooting my DSLR at 30 seconds or longer - I can't find a clear answer that doesn't include using ...
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Proper exposure for taking a sunset, stars, and moonrise timelapse
I'm planning to take a sunset to nighttime to moonrise timelapse. On the day in question, the conditions are:
Sunset at 7pm
Nighttime at 8pm
Milky Way visibility at 8:30pm
Moonrise at 2:30am at 15% ...
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What causes the multiple instances of the same object (star or planet) that appears on this photo?
On a photo I took, there seems to be multiple instances of the same object, is it a result of my low quality camera and lens, or something else?
ISO: 3200
3s
Body: Sony alpha 57 (mirroless)
Lens: ...
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Take stacked photos of night-sky with the Moon
I would like to ask about photographing night sky (stacked photos) with 80% Moon. It's about 80%, but the moonrise will be at 21:59. So technically when I would like to take photos of the opposite ...
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How to better enhance this star field image using Photoshop?
I have a bunch of images I took this night with my binoculars and my phone camera attached to it (8 second exposures using OpenCamera). The light from the city and from the Moon made the background ...
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Unsmooth Star Trails
My setup:
Peak Design Carbon Fiber Tripod
Sony A7r4 + Sony GM 16-35 lens shooting at 16mm
ISO 640, f/3.5, 30 seconds
Camera set to continuous shooting mode
Remote shot for 1+ hours continuously
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Do I need to wait for new moon to get a Milky Way photograph?
I know that similar questions have been answered, but this is very specific.
I know that I need as much darkness as possible, and hence the recommendation for new moon days. But, would you get the ...
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Taking picture every x seconds [duplicate]
I would like to make star trails picture and I saw that one good way to do so is to take picture every like 30 seconds and them stack them all.
I have Sony a6500 camera. Is there a way to set this in ...
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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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Why are the star trails in Richard Angle's photos of a SpaceX launch and landing so non-uniform?
Teslarati's SpaceX just expanded the envelope of rocket recovery with 50th booster landing includes some beautiful examples of Richard Angle's work portraying time and motion and physical processes. ...
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gphoto2 - interval photography with bulb mode
I discovered gphoto2 a couple of days ago and I've been digging into the documentation but I've not been able to solve my problem.
I would like to create a star trail with my Nikon D3400. The camera ...
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Which programs can be used for landscape night photography stacking on a Mac?
I am interested in landscape night photography and would like to avoid star trails. The research I did so far suggests that I should use image stacking to accomplish this but I am having some trouble ...
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Star photography noise
I am using the BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera (original) to play around with capturing images of the night sky.
So this is a Super16 2.1MP sensor with a 135mm cinema lens at T2.2 capturing 12-bit ...
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