Thursday, September 28, 2023
Planner Apps - Side by Side. Left to right, The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE Android), PhotoPills, and PlanIt Pro. PlanIt offers the most info while TPE shows the least. Copyright 2021 Kirk D. Keyes.

Best Landscape Photography Apps for 2021

Android and iOS smartphone apps help immensely with our landscape and Milky Way photography quests. So we at MilkyWayPhotographers.com looked on our phones and compared notes to find the...

2021 Nightscaper Conference Pre-Event Webinars

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Royce Bair's 2nd Annual 2021 Nightscaper Conference will soon be upon us. It's taking place under the amazing night skies at Kanab, UT, on May 10-12, 2021. While the...
The Sky Watcher AZ-GTI goto mount i9n operation. ©2021 Ralf Rohner

Sky-Watcher AZ-GTI: The Perfect Mount for Mobile Astrophotography?

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The longer I am engaged in shooting astro-landscapes, the longer focal lengths I seem to use. Some 2 years ago, I started shooting "deepscapes," landscape astrophotography with deep-sky objects...
Light Pollution Filters, ©2021 George Liv Photo

Light Pollution Filters – Why We Use Them

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Gadget-wise, today, astro-imagers and amateur astronomers have never had it so good. At their disposal are many wonderful instruments and tools aiding and expanding their astronomical pursuits. At the...

Top Safety Tips For Night and Milky Way Photography

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Checklists make preparing for our night photography trips easier. But you may not have one for safety items. Here are my Top Safety Tips for Milky Way Photography. Food, Water,...
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Pentax Astrotracer Guide – 2021 Edition: What it is and How to Use it

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Pentax’s Astrotracer is a game-changing feature created with night photographers in mind. It has strengths and weaknesses. But overall, this feature alone makes the now "old" Pentax K-1 and...
Printing Your Milky Way Photos - 101, © 2020 Stanley Harper

Milky Way Photography Printing 101

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Printing your Milky Way photography will be one of the most self-gratifying things a photographer can do. Seeing one’s work go from pixels to a physical object that we...
Photography Group Moderators - Stop Being a Scrooge!

Photography Group Moderators – Stop Being a Scrooge!

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You have just spent all night outside photographing the Milky Way. Then you catch a few hours of sleep and then sit down at your computer. You spend another...

Finding Comet NEOWISE

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One semi-cloudy day around the 4th of July, I got an alert from SkyWalk 2 on my phone. Something..something.. comet visible. I didn't think much of it since...
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Chasing The Milky Way in Kings Canyon National Park

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Kings Canyon National Park is an overlooked destination for Milky Way photography. Living in the San Joaquin Valley of California can pose challenges for those of us that like...