Beginner Star photography

AlistairK

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Hi folks,

I just registered and am glad to be here. I have been doing some photography now for about 9 months however I am trying to find the best way to enhance my photos of the stars.

I understand it may be impossible in the city however i’ll include two photos I took this evening.

Can I ask any experts what they think I could do to make these better?

the DLSR I use is a canon EOS 4000d and the lens is a Samyang 14mm f2.8

Thanks very much :)
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I wrote a blog post about this on my website (link is in my sig)

Looks to be a lot of light pollution hence the yellow glow. With the quarantine, there aren't many things you can do to fix that!
 
Hi

thanks for the quick response. I feared light pollution but I was really hoping it was something else! At the very least I know I have the right ideas as far as taking a goes :)

i will check your blog tomorrow. Thanks again very much !
 
A filter like “Haida clear night” could help counter the light pollution. Even with a lot of light pollution star trail photos can get good results.
 
Thanks for the reply.
I live in Glasgow and i’m within the red area for light pollution! :(

is there any other type of filter which can be recommended, where able cheaper too but if the one suggested will help i’ll look at it.

thanks again.
 
http://nicolasalexanderotto.net/haida-clear-night-filter-review/

hi Alistair, I’ve not tried any other Astro filters so can’t compare. I’m using it in the mountains where the issue is glow on the horizon and it helps a bit with that, but by no means a silver bullet. The blog link above includes before and after shots in a city. The key issue will be what sort of lights are creating the pollution where you are, their wavelength then finding a filter that works for that band of light. Good luck.
 
Not an expert, but I think you get could quite a lot more with post processing - had a play with your JPG file and you should be able to get even more form a raw file

E.g. with some tweaks to white balance, contrast, clarity and exposure using Photoshop:

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AlistairK said:
Thanks for the reply.
I live in Glasgow and i’m within the red area for light pollution! :(

is there any other type of filter which can be recommended, where able cheaper too but if the one suggested will help i’ll look at it.

thanks again.
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Based on where you live, when the lockdown ends one of the best places you could go to is Portencross. The light pollution is minimal and many a good shot of the milky way can be had with the old pier used as a foreground, but obviously depends on the time of the year.
 
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