Tripod Astrophotography - Glenn Wester

What you’ll learn in the next 400,000ms (~6min):

-Camera Settings

-How to find the North Star

-How to compose and photograph:

Star Trails (think Starry Night)

Milky Way

Need this to get started!

• Cheap Tripod

• Any DSLR

• Interval Timer Trigger (optional)

Star TrailsRecipeSet camera mode => Manual

Quality => JPEG or RAW

Set camera lens => MF Manual Focus \ VR Off

White Balance => Auto

ISO => 800-4000

Aperture => ~f/1.8 - f/4.0

Shutter => ‘Bulb’

Set Interval Timer => 30 seconds for N times

FOCUS (to infinity)

Use LiveView function to focus on the brightest object (Planet or bright star) to get your camera focused

North Star == Polaris

• START => Activate the timer trigger, camera starts

Create a movie file out of still images in video-editing software Open media as “Image-Sequence”, playback at @24fps or 30fps

Star Trail Photograph

Single Frame

• Stack them in Photoshop using the “muchStars.atn” action-script file, just point it at your folder of images

L I G H T P O L L U T I O N x__X

Dealing with light pollution• Light Pollution Filter - filters out the wavelength of

light emitted by sodium halide lamps (yellow city lights)

• Go on a camping trip :)

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