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Originally Posted by JB80
Hi Yoly and welcome,
You'll love it when it arrives and it sounds like you are ready to go when it does.
Yep, that's pretty much it. Once polaris is in line and locked just aim away, easy. 
Although it's important to check that the tripod is level if you can and if you think you may have knocked it when moving the camera then just do a re-sight.
Did you order the polar scope too?
The biggest difference so far is dark skies, maybe if I was better at processing I could get a decent pic out of ones using the LP filter. Still there is no comparison to truly dark skies.
A pic I took last week on holiday in Crete shows the difference good skies make.
This was a 3 minute and 5 second exposure at 28mm with an ISO of 1600. I haven't done any processing of the pic apart from a resize to fit the forum, these were the first milky way pics I have shot too.
Hopefully I can process some of the others and post them when done as well. |
No polar scope yet. Gotta wait for the chicken to lay some eggs.
The photo looks great, no trails at all. I hope my Polarie helps me do the same. Too many clouds on my skies, this isn theb rainy season and I think I will have to wait to autumn or winter for better skies. I need to do all the right things first time out so I don't get discouraged. I then stay away from this for a while and come back months later. I will check if you have a gallery, love watching good photos and results. My first attempts at the moon and Orion are on stargazers.com and my username is Walky. Not a great thing. Just regular beginner 's pics.
As for editing. I like using Adobe Lightroom for editing and even importing my photos. I have little experience with It but it is super at handling a photo processing session. The editing you do is not permanent, so you always have the original without any effort. All your edits are virtual, until you export the photo, which you can customize with watermark, size, and export location; which can be a web site or photo site, a folder , etc. That can be saved as a "preset". Very creative. You can export all your edits to a certain folder and stash away the originals. I am trying to get rid of bulky photos on HD this way You can add keywords, search by size, name, camera make, and much more. I love it!
Btw, my very first Polarie photo must be of the Milky Way. As a novice, I have to start with the big chunks of stars. I am a fan of Ben Canales, who shoots beautiful photo scapes of the Milky way. I think his photos got me started.Hope to shoot something like yours one day.This is going to be an exciting journey.