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First shot of Milkyway. Advice appreciated.

Started Oct 26, 2016 | Questions thread
oscarvdvelde Senior Member • Posts: 1,421
Re: First shot of Milkyway. Advice appreciated.
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edorf_71 wrote:

Thanks all for your tips and advices although most of it goes over my head

I'll read myself up on this topic but It seems like a lot to take in. Im sure it'll be worth it, though. My thought was to keep it simple and not invest in any software or gadgets for this. Gotta keep working on it I guess.

A good site to read is clarkvision.com, the author is active here in the Astrophotography forum (rnclark).

However, I do not necessarily agree with his very saturated yellow/orange Milky Ways. It may be a correct representation, but when the photograph is a night landscape, not an astro object, we humans see mostly neutral to slightly bluish tones in the dark due to the Purkinje effect. For example at full moon we are bathing in warmly reflected sunlight, but all we see in the landscape is pale blue. Light of our own astronomically yellow star we perceive as white anyway, too!

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