DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Night Sky Shooting / Astrophotography on X-T2 : ETTR? ISO 1600?

Started Oct 2, 2018 | Discussions thread
zurubi Contributing Member • Posts: 868
Re: Night Sky Shooting / more on exposure time

An avid MW shooter in NM here.... we DO get dark skies here

I use the XT3 with the 12mm Rokinon at f2

My parameters are Iso 1250. However, I haven't seen the correct exposure time discussed, so here are my 2 cents. I use the Photopills calculator in the "most stringent" formula. The usual formula used by folks still gives me star trails if I make a big print, so I started using the other formula that gives shorter time. So I usually settle for ~12-14s with this lens.

Like others, I stack. Use the Starry... software on the mac and works great.

Thanks for a great discussion, I always learn here.

 zurubi's gear list:zurubi's gear list
Sony a7R III Fujifilm X-T5 Fujifilm XF 10-24mm F4 R OIS Samyang 12mm F2.0 NCS CS Fujifilm 16-55mm F2.8R LM WR +6 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow