Another scene from the Big Field on Beaver Island, on a clear night. I liked how some of the constellations pop, though I wouldn't recognize any but the Big Dipper on my own. Best on Black -- the cluster on the lower right is perhaps Scorpio and the one to the left of the 'steam' of the milky way is the Teapot. Actually, that's what I was told, but I can't see the figures without the little lines in books about stars! Thanks for your lovely comments and favs on yesterday's pano.
David is going to do a screen grab of the area you have photographed in Stellarium with the constellation lines on it and I will post it tomorrow on my extras page for you.
Absolutely beautiful! I have a friend who lives on Cape Cod and is trying to capture star clusters, the Milky Way and nebula (i. e. subtle night lights) with a Leica 5 mounted on a telescope. It seems that folks out on Cape Cod are not as forthcoming about how they get their shots as we are here on 365. Any suggestions for him? What were your settings for this shot?
@olivetreeann It's a shame that they can't share when photographing together. I've never used a telescope so don't know what settings that would require. For my Nikon using a 20mm f1.8, I open it to 1.8, and usually set ISO to around 1600, then shutter speed is between 15 and 20 seconds. If longer is required, better to up the ISO as over 20 seconds, he'll get star trails -- looks like the stars are out of focus but it's essentially movement of the sky/earth.
@taffy Thank you so much Taffy- I will pass that along to him. I'll encourage him to sign up too- I think he would enjoy the wonderful night shots people share here.
July 7th, 2022
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Almost 11 pm here now so I am just off to bed.
He took the information from the Stellarium Planetarium program which you can download and run for free.
If you need any other info let me know.