How to Photograph the Milky Way

I liked this one as well. Even if you are not shooting the sky, Cory & Tanja gave a lot of really good advice for even regular photography. I've been a photojournalist now for 44 years, and am impressed with your first shot. Due to my work (I work in two major fields, computers & journalism) I have to live where light pollution is so bad that even when I shoot the moon it doesn't come out right. One thing I have done is lease telescope time at various observatories and my favorite sites are Arizona, Canada and Chile. I've only done B&W. Shooting using a telescope is more complex than just using your camera. (Using the cameras designed for telescopes might make for a good episode - I would suspect Cory and Tanja will tell you it's more complex), but with an Equatorial Mount that moves with the Earth's rotation, deep sky objects can be photographed quite nicely. Like shooting lightning, shooting a meteor shower is very challenging, at least for me. I've tried it a number of times and I haven't even gotten a stray one, like the two in your Milky Way photo. So I hope you do some more videos on photographing other space objects (I've shot a few total lunar eclipses that came out great, including the one dubbed the Red Sox Moon, a lunar eclipse that occurred during the playoffs with the NY Yankees. I've never seen such a red Moon!

That's a great post, Fraser. Cory & Tanja are legends in the astrophotography community due to their knowledge and easy to understand tutorials plus how generous they are. Congratulations on your first image, too!

Any way to get transcript of this - how to photo Milky Way? Going to try end of Sep in Great Basin area.