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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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patel.christopher6mo ago
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.
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shane3576mo 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.
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johnwest6mo 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.
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lee186mo 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.
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