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Milky Way photos is something I have wanted to do for a long time, but opportunities are lacking and living just 20 miles outside London I have a lot of light pollution to contend with.
Last weekend I was camping out in Sussex in High Weald, the skies were clear so I thought I would give it a go so headed out with my Fuji X-T3 and Samyang 12mm and using photopills augmented reality to locate galactic centre.
This one was taken from the middle of the dam at Bewl water. No sign of the milky way at all.
ISO 1000 / f2.0 / 15s
And this one the same night in a random field. If I squint I can just about make it out, but its not exactly what I was hoping for.
ISO 3200 / f2.0 / 15s
What am I doing wrong? Is it something up with my settings? I tried longer exposures and higher iso but that just resulted in an overall brighter image but no greater definition of GC.
Maybe it is still too much light pollution in this area? Is it something that can only really be achieved in properly dark skies?
Last weekend I was camping out in Sussex in High Weald, the skies were clear so I thought I would give it a go so headed out with my Fuji X-T3 and Samyang 12mm and using photopills augmented reality to locate galactic centre.
This one was taken from the middle of the dam at Bewl water. No sign of the milky way at all.
ISO 1000 / f2.0 / 15s
And this one the same night in a random field. If I squint I can just about make it out, but its not exactly what I was hoping for.
ISO 3200 / f2.0 / 15s
What am I doing wrong? Is it something up with my settings? I tried longer exposures and higher iso but that just resulted in an overall brighter image but no greater definition of GC.
Maybe it is still too much light pollution in this area? Is it something that can only really be achieved in properly dark skies?