For sure this page is a bit of a mess.
Instructional guides
- Astrophotography 101: A Lesson Series on Photographing the Milky Way – Lonely Speck - large MOC with multiple articles to work through on all topics
Planning
Light Pollution
- Light Pollution Map for Bendigo - I have this app on my mobile phone.
- The Bortle Scale is a measurement of light pollution. My house is Bortle 5, “Suburban”
Setting Shutter speeds
Société Astronomique du Havre - Règle NPF : temps de pose pour éviter le filé d’étoiles
- View in Chome and translate to English.
Input-referred Read Noise versus ISO Setting
- find a point where it begins to level off
- Canon 400D - needs to be ISO 1600 which is max ISO
- Canon R50 Mirrorless - ISO 800 but ISO 800 would be fine
Suitable telescopes
Guide scopes
Astro cameras
Lenses
- Characteristics
- Fast lens f2.8, f2.4, and better if faster again
- Low aberrations
- Bigger lenses need tracker and gets to deep sky
- Canon EF 50mm f1.8 STM
- Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Astrophotography Review – Lonely Speck
- The 50mm focal length is a little narrow for capturing the Milky Way, so the lens’s best use is for capturing narrower crops of detailed sections of the sky, perhaps using multiple frames for producing a stacked image or even a panorama stitch for a wide angle field of view.
- Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Astrophotography Review – Lonely Speck
Tools
- Astrophotography Stacking Software
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starry-landscape-stacker/id550326617?mt=12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtoX5aBI8E
https://astroforumspace.com/category/astrophotography-tutorials/
For a single photo
https://www.lonelyspeck.com/milky-way-exposure-calculator/ Canon 50mm
- 1600 ISO
- 1.8 f
Shutter speed 7 seconds
For stacked photos
https://photographylife.com/night-sky-image-stacking Turn off long exposure noise reductions C.FN-2 Turn off image stablisation on the long lens Set Tungsten white balance