First Attempts at Shooting the Night Sky

Thats a great effort for the first time Jack, it looks plenty dark enough to get some good Milky Way images from there in September. ;)
 
Thanks Mike - how would I go about starting to photograph the milky way? Does it have to be at certain times of the year like you suggested?

I did get an app on my phone to help me locate certain stars / planets etc.

Thanks!
 
Hi Jack
The Milky Way is best viewed in the UK in September where it will streak across the sky from the south to west throughout the night and is best viewed when astro darkness begins (which is around 2230 in September). That is when we are looking into the galactic core and why it appears brightly to us around then.

Take a look at http://www.lonelyspeck.com it has everything you need to know about landscape astrophotography.

Yep a good app is well worth having, I can see Jupiter and a few open clusters and a nebula in your images.

Freathy beach reflections by Mike Meal, on Flickr
 
A useful thing to have to find the Milky Way is Stellarium ( http://www.stellarium.org/en_GB/ )

It can be set to your lat. and long. (or the lat. and long. of where you are going to shoot from) and will show the sky for any day so you can spot when the MW will be best placed, and it is free.

While we can't see the best parts of the MW from the UK the part we can see is, as Mike has said, best placed in September. Just look for a dark site and a night without much moonlight.

Dave
 
Floydsong said:
Beautiful What lens would you need to capture something similar
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PESolution said:
Taken with a D5500 and Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM | Art
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But really any wide or wide-ish lens can do the job. If it doesn't open up to f/1.8 you just need to compensate by increasing the ISO and/or exposure time.
 
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