After months of cloudy skies, I managed to snap a clear pic of the Milky Way

I mean, idk, but I'm kinda proud of this one.

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It looks pretty hazy to me, like there's still a lot of light pollution washing it out. The core should be way more defined against the dark sky. Maybe it's the camera settings, but my shots from a real dark site show way more stars and depth. This just seems faint and grainy compared to what you can actually see out there.

shane3571mo ago

Light pollution makes astro photos look washed out. Heard from a photographer that camera settings can only do so much against city glow. True dark skies are the real fix.

johnwest1mo ago

Yeah @shane357 is totally right, you can only fight the city glow so much. My own attempts look like I pointed my camera at a gray sweater, even with a star tracker and stacking. The noise just takes over. Gotta drive hours for a real dark sky, it's the only fix.

lee1823d ago

Tell you what, it's like trying to hear a whisper at a rock concert. You can buy all the gear, learn all the tricks, but that orange haze just drowns everything. Saw a guy once stack like a hundred shots from his backyard. Still just got a fuzzy gray blob where the Milky Way should be. Makes you realize the gear is almost secondary. The real tool is a full tank of gas and a map to the middle of nowhere.