MRPS The Night Sky Presentation 20210510 - Stan Mansas

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Step 4: MethodOn location?Setup your gear, it’s a good idea is to lay down a towel under your tripod it will catch anything you dropUsing apps adjust your setup: Frame your foreground and mid/distant objects so they’re where you want them inrelation to where the subject will be/traverseFind and Focus: Shooting at night it is very difficult to find targets and get accurate focus. Generally we need tounderstand the sky and to find infinity focus to shoot the milky wayHow to find the Milky Way:Having a basic understanding of astronomy certainly helps us with nightscape Photography.As mentioned earlier, usually some portion of the milky way is visible all year round, we have to understand that the bestimages are those that focus on what is known as the Milky Way Core. In the Southern Hemispheres we find the core,which is the thickest and brightest part of the milky way in the constellations of Scorpio and Sagittarius.As mentioned there’s amazing software available for desktop and mobiles which for any given day, month and year it willtell us where everything is located in the day or night sky. Stellarium (free) and Photopills (Paid) are great.Background Image: Stellarium
Step 4: MethodSouthern CrossFind: To find the Milky Way Corefind the southern cross draw a linebetween Rigil (the first of thepointers) and Antares the star whichhas a yellowish hue, the core is justbelow AntaresAntaresRigilGalactic centre (Milky Way Core)Background Image: Stellarium
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Page 7 and 8: McNaught Comet Gisborne 200735 to 1
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Page 17 and 18: Milky WayPhotographing the Galactic
Page 19 and 20: The Celestial MapDid you know that
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