✨Milky Way photography MASTERCLASS ✨

[@darreneverywhere]

I really love your channel. Thank you!

[@richeybarclay]

love your passion for sharing!

[@CapturetheAtlas]

Thank you! This is my passion so I'm always happy to share it!

[@allanmurray4156]

Glad to have joined the stream and learned a lot of new skills when it comes to trackers and how to improve on my milkyway images massive credit to you dude.

[@CapturetheAtlas]

Thanks for joining Allan! And I'm happy to see that you found it informative!

[@sanmitraijeri]

Amazing masterclass on milky way photography, thanks for sharing. If one has to choose only one fast aperture lens, what lens would you choose ? Sony 14mm f1.8 or Sony 20mm f1.8 ?

[@CapturetheAtlas]

Thanks! It's a difficult choice but, for Milky Way, I'd go with the Sony 20 mm f/1.8 ;)

[@dougstevens9973]

Dan: I asked this during the webinar, but did not think you answered what I was actually asking. I was asking how to handle star reflections on water while tracking. If you track the stars in the sky, will it help the reflections? I know how do do this with a fixed camera in Starry Landscape Stacker. However, do stars in the reflection not rotate about a different apparent axis--a reflected celestial pole (and in the opposite direction)? So must one change the polar alignment between exposure on the sky and in the reflection? How do you do that? Thanks Doug

[@CapturetheAtlas]

Doug, Thanks for joining the webinar and for your questions! If you track the sky, your stars in the reflection will look like trails since, as you mention, your camera is rotating in the opposite direction. What I do and is tracking my sky, turn off the tracker, and take a series of 10-15 images at a higher ISO to stack them in SLS for the reflection. You have to do a blending, but it's the only way I found to have pinpoint stars both in the sky and the reflection when you are tracking. I've discussed this with other renowned astrophotographers and they came to the same conclusion. In any case, we can't get the same amount of detail and structure in a reflected image, so in my opinion, it's not a big deal, and doing the "untracked stacking" is a good solution.

[@dougstevens9973]

@@CapturetheAtlas Thanks, Dan!

[@aniketlande7436]

Lonely masterclass 😍 everything to the point. Just one question: in h-alpha simulation step are we extracting the sensor collected data or simulating that data i.e., "red color"?

[@CapturetheAtlas]

Thank you! Actually both, you can decide just to enhance the data collected in your exposure or try to simulate the color/texture of those regions. This is a just a personal preference and bear in mind that the second method doesn't represent the reality the same as an astromod camera ;)

[@jasonmordecai8212]

I own a MSM plus the camera I have is the same as you so this was really interesting to see a whole presentation on shooting the MW. I subbed 🙂

[@adriansanchezgutierrez6843]

Mucha suerte desde España Dan!! Seguí un poco tu trabajo a raíz de la masterclass con el crack de Iván Ferrero, y vi también que habías colaborado recientemente con PhotoPills. Gran trabajo de divulgación avanzada el que estás haciendo. Enhorabuena!!

[@Azhoneybeeastro]

I have MSM and I’ve been able to use it with my DSLR and now my Z6ii and adapter without a problem. I’ve also been able to do panos with it, so it can work. My question is -do you say tracking with MSM is hard for 4-6 minutes because of the potential movement by the wind? Because I’ve tracked for 4 minutes before 🤔 Gracias!

[@CapturetheAtlas]

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[@sunnymind]

So you do not stack images but rather use a single image or stich a panorama. Why not stack to improve detail?

[@CapturetheAtlas]

I track the sky and blend the image with the foreground using a stack, blend, or long exposure. Everything is explained in the presentation

[@Bert03241]

I couldn't here you and there was no CC

[@CapturetheAtlas]

sorry about the low volume at the start of the presentation!

[@garystiles2559]

I don't understand what benefit it gained by using a higher f-stop? There's no DoF at infinity, so I see no reason to not shoot at the widest f-stop. .

[@CapturetheAtlas]

The main reason to stop down your lens 1/2 stops is to correct aberrations. All lenses have the worst performance when they’re wide open in terms of coma, chromatic aberrations, astigmatism, etc.