How to photograph the night sky | A Beginner's Guide to Astrophotography | At-Bristol
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Learn how to take photos of the night sky, constellations, and deep sky objects like the Orion Nebula in this beginner's guide to astrophotography, with Lee and Ross of the Live Science Team. This video was presented by: Ross Exton & Lee Pullen Produced by Ross Exton & Seamus Foley How to find Orion: http://youtu.be/C7PsMLJ3zmU How to spot a shooting stars: http://youtu.be/xNmgvlwInCA Check out more of Lee's astrophotography here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lee_pullen We took our astrophotos using the following settings, but feel free to experiment and let us know how you got on... STAR TRAILS Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Focal length: 300mm Aperture: f5.6 ISO: 200 Shutter speed: 120 seconds THE MOON Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Focal length: 300mm Aperture: f5.6 ISO: 200 Shutter speed: 1/100th second JUPITER AND MOONS Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Focal length: 280mm Aperture: f5.6 ISO: 800 Shutter speed: 1 second PLEIADES Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Focal length: 300mm Aperture: f5.6 ISO: 1250 (high ISO shot was 6400) Shutter speed: 1.3 seconds GEMINI AND JUPITER Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 G ED Focal length: 42mM Aperture: f2.8 ISO: 400 Shutter speed: 20 seconds ORION AND TAURUS Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 G ED Focal length: 42mm Aperture: f2.8 ISO: 200 Shutter speed: 15 seconds ORION NEBULA Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Focal length: 155mm Aperture: f4.5 ISO: 2000 Shutter speed: 2 seconds Twitter: http://twitter.com/atbristol Follow what the Live Science Team gets up to on a daily basis: http://twitter.com/atbristol_LST Facebook: http://facebook.com/atbristolfans At-Bristol is an educational charity and one of the UK's leading science and discovery centres, with the aim of making science accessible to all. Exploration and education go hand in hand to create an unforgettable, fun day out with hundreds of hands-on exhibits, explosive live science shows and a Planetarium; At-Bristol is one of the UK's biggest and most exciting interactive science centres. Our YouTube channel gives you an exciting behind-the-scenes look at the people, places, exhibits, and experiments that bring science to life! Find out more about At-Bristol: http://at-bristol.org.uk Music: Provided courtesy of YouTube Audiolibrary
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grat video . could you do this with a nikon coolpix p900 camera
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This is an awesome video, not too difficult. Thanks so much!!
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What if my lens doesn't have the infinity option ?
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Made me laugh like photos for Dummies but some of us need that lol :-)
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Great tutorial
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thanks mate I'll try that in the next clear night...hope...
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hi friend I try them setting on a Canon 600d 30sec and iso 6400 and the screen comes up very whight... any help please new to astro photo
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do the settings for the nikon apply to any lense? can you recommend any good lenses to photograph the night sky? what nikon lense did you use in the beginning of the video? (sorry for so many questions)
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Tonigts the supermoon and im rushing to figure out how to do this and then the words full manual setting popped up and now it works YES!!
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that dude looks like Sheldon
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could these tips be applied for use with a telescope as well?
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Thanks for the interesting video. Do you have a recommendation to split double stars? For instance the Double Double near Vega?
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Great, basic and very clear tutorial. Recently moved to Western Australia so I should be able to find some good spots without light pollution. Can't wait !! cheers guys!
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In which mode should i shoot at night? answer please?
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Ross,your video is awesome
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Great video! Can't wait to try for myself!
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AWESOME. Thank you so much!
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Best advice on long exposure photos I've seen so far. Clearly explained and easy to get! Thanks!
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What about tracking? if you want more detail you'll need to do longer exposures and the camera has to track the sky on some type of tracking mount like a German Equatorial Mount or GEM FOR SHORT, I understand the concept of beginners intro to astrophotography where one can take beautiful pictures with minimal equipment. Maybe you should have also included info on long exposures and how to track the sky. With a wide angle lens up to 50mm one can do up too a 30 second exposure with out star trails of the Milky Way and constellations but for deep sky with high power lens tracking is needed. Other than that I give you thumbs up.
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Wow this is very helpful and I love that you put the info in the description for different things!!👍👌
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