Shooting Stars and the Milky Way

floridafan

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We gave this a try last night without success. Just ended up with some pinpricks of light. Using a D850 and a Nikon 14-24 2.8 on a tripod. Set at infinity and various ISO setting ranging from 800-3200 and about 36 seconds on the shutter "speed".
 

Andy W

Senior Member
You might try turning off autofocus and use live view to focus. 36 seconds may show some tracking, 20 something may work better.
 

Catherder

Senior Member
Manual focus, 1600 ISO, 15-20 sec. works good on my D750, Have not had a chance to try the D850 for night shots yet.
 

Blade Canyon

Senior Member
Mickey Way.jpg

This was 30 seconds, f4, ISO 800 off the pier in San Clemente. There was a lot of light pollution to the left, but you can still see the Milky Way. I'm surprised you didn't get better results with the settings you were using. Any chance you left a polarizing filter on the lens or something?
 

floridafan

New member
No chance for a filter on the Nikon 14-24, lol! Maybe we just did not shoot enough with the higher ISO.... We will be trying again! I thought it interesting to learn that Summer was the better season to shoot.
 
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