Milky Way in Acadia National Park

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I was in Maine last weekend and took these shots of the Milky Way from Otter Point in Acadia NP. This was my first time photographing the Milky Way so I would love any feedback you can give.

All shots were taken with a Nikon D850 and Nikkor 14-24 mm at 14 mm untracked. I took 8 images and stacked them for noise reduction.

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@dmb8021 I was in Maine last weekend and took these shots of the Milky Way from Otter Point in Acadia NP. This was my first time photographing the Milky Way so I would love any feedback you can give.
This is truly beautiful. If you want to get your hands dirty, check out Photopills - they are the in the know guys with a great app on anything DOF to astro-photography.
 
I have never really used PhotoPills for the milky way even though I mean to, maybe next year. I do use Stellarium on mac throughout the year. I have Star walk 2 on my iphone. It is useful for notifications.
 
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Hut said:
I have never really used PhotoPills for the milky way even though I mean to, maybe next year.
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Give it a shot, you might get hooked.

Stellarium is great for planning ahead of time and what I used for comet Neowise images (had to import the Neowise ephemeral data into Stellarium) but in the field PhotoPills is really cool. The AR Night Vision view is really helpful. You can walk to a candidate spot (selected via Stellarium or the PhotoPills planner) in broad daylight, dial in the date and time of your proposed shoot and see exactly where the Milky Way and major celestial objects will line up with the landscape and move around if the alignment doesn't work for you. You see this through your cell phone's camera so you see the night sky right on top of the actual landscape you're looking at from that position. You can even stand there and dial in future dates or just slide the clock forward or backwards at any given date to see if things line up better during at a different time or date.

It's pretty cool to be able to see the night sky accurately superimposed on the landscape in front of you at any time of day or night and see what it will look like on future nights.
 
DRwyoming said:
Give it a shot, you might get hooked.

Stellarium is great for planning ahead of time and what I used for comet Neowise images (had to import the Neowise ephemeral data into Stellarium) but in the field PhotoPills is really cool. The AR Night Vision view is really helpful. You can walk to a candidate spot (selected via Stellarium or the PhotoPills planner) in broad daylight, dial in the date and time of your proposed shoot and see exactly where the Milky Way and major celestial objects will line up with the landscape and move around if the alignment doesn't work for you. You see this through your cell phone's camera so you see the night sky right on top of the actual landscape you're looking at from that position. You can even stand there and dial in future dates or just slide the clock forward or backwards at any given date to see if things line up better during at a different time or date.

It's pretty cool to be able to see the night sky accurately superimposed on the landscape in front of you at any time of day or night and see what it will look like on future nights.
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Yes that would be fantastic. I usually get a pretty good idea and then end up having to adjust my position in the dark.
 
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