![]() Or if the Moon is above the horizon, it should be around new moon, plus-minus 3-4 days, otherwise it will blow out the sky. Best time for Milky Way photography is around New Moon. So you want to avoid the light pollution on the southern horizon mainly (this article goes in-depth about light pollution and how you can avoid it).Ī good tool to find dark areas is Blue Marble’s maps where it shows you the “normal” map, but if you move your cursor over, it will show you the night satellite image:īut being in a very dark, non light-polluted area is not enough: the Moon should not be on the sky either. With this mind, you have to make sure that the nearest city in southern direction is at least 40 miles away, otherwise the light pollution will be covering the center part of Milky Way. The direction of the nearest city also matters.įor example, on the northern hemisphere, the centre of the Milky Way is usually around 20-40 degrees above the southern horizon. Look how clear the sky is, how little light pollution there is. Look how the light pollution of the city masks out the central part of the Milky Way:Ĭompare that to this beautiful picture of David Kingham, taken at the famous Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park: The Milky Way reflects in the Snake River at the famous Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park. ![]() This picture was taken 15 miles from the edge of Budapest, Hungary, a capital with 2 millions of people. ![]() In practice, this means at least 30-50 miles away from bigger cities. The quality of the sky is the most important factor to obtain a good Milky Way shot.īasically, you want be as far from cities as possible. The internet is full of questions like “what’s the best lens / camera for night photography?”, but the questions should really be about “what are the best places to shoot?”.īecause the quality of the sky is No 1 factor in taking a breathtaking Milky Way shot. That’s good news, because it’s best in the summer □ Pick the darkest location The galactic centre is visible from the early mornings of April until the evenings of October. This is what makes that light patch on the sky. The density of the stars is highest here, also there’s a lot of interstellar dust in the space. The galactic centre is the most photogenic area, and this is what you see most often on photos. From this vantage point, the general components of our spiral galaxy come clearly into view, including its disc, marbled with both dark and glowing nebulae, which harbours bright, young stars, as well as the Galaxy’s central bulge and its satellite galaxies. The projection used here place the viewer in front of our Galaxy with the Galactic Plane running horizontally through the image – almost as if we were looking at the Milky Way from the outside. The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. Source: Wikipedia / Adam Evansīut as we’re the inside it, it looks like this: 360-degree panoramic image of our Galaxy by European Southern Observatory (ESO). Scientist think that our Galaxy looks almost exactly like it. What we call Milky Way is actually our Galaxy, and from the outside it looks pretty much like the Andromeda Galaxy: The Andromeda Galaxy is one of siblings of our own Galaxy.
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