The king of Milky Way panoramas - Axel Mellinger, his most recent, digital, using a 50mm lens. www.milkywaysky.com. He did one back in film days using (I think) an 800mm f4 Vixen reflector, but I can't find any working links to it. That was a stunning picture. There is a thumbnail of it at the top of the page here: galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/Astrophotography/images.html#primefocus I know this is an entirely different kind of photograph, but you might find it interesting. If I am right about the 800mm Vixen, he used lot of film... I saw it in an Astronomy magazine, quite a few years ago.

@Milkywaymike

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I've seen that image before and they printed it SUPER LARGE which is really cool... Thanks for sharing!

Great tutorial, with step by step detailed explanations. 👏👏👏

Excellent video. Thank you very much!

Amazing! Great tutorial!

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it, thanks!

Amazing! Thanks so much, very helpful!

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

Camie sure thing!

Nice tut. Thanks!

Great video btw

Fantastic! Thx so much (from Sydney Australia) 😎👍

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you say much.

Thanks for the video, Mike!

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@johnbyrne6313

7 жыл бұрын

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I used my widest lens so there was some wonk in the stars in some spots but it's decent for a first try while there were coyotes howling everywhere. I guess I should use a slightly tighter lens and shorter exposure but that would give me less detail and more grain. And I don't feel like using the awful kit lens I have. I'll have to search around for some better lenses for this.

Excellent. Subscribed.

@Milkywaymike

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the sub! Thanks 🙏🏻

Good content...great

Man I wish I new how to use photoshop! I am still learning light room. Great video

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

With time and practice... I'm all self taught through youtube tutorials and you can do it too man!! Good luck and happy shooting!

Great job thanks! first clear night I had here in literally a month last night... near full moon in the center of where the core was. ;o( this spring weather is killing me! But you are keeping me inspired!

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Yeah I love that area... too bad the mosquitos are horrible there!! I got eaten alive that night...

Great prep for upcoming trip to Outer Banks

Milky Way Mike Hey Mike, thank you for the vid! How did you manage to have everything in focus with f2.8? Especially the parts of the house closely in front. Thanks, Tony

Great tutorial! I was just at Bodie and Hatteras last month and meant to try and get a pano of each, but the mosquitos had me off my game and I completely forgot to get panoramas. Oh well, always next trip

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Same here, I had a mosquito net on but I was so hot that i put a short sleeve shirt on underneath so they still got to me. I definitely rushed due to getting eaten alive.

@christopherderrick4509

7 жыл бұрын

I was wearing long sleeve columbia fishing shirts and they were biting me through the clothing! They're relentless!

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Same hear.. you need loose baggy close and a mosquito net. Anything tight to your body and they will bite right through... even my jeans! Only thing that saved me was heavy coat but I was sweating like crazy and my hands took a lot of punishment from them.

Very nicely done, learned a lot! Would you say the light of the lighthouse creates a strong source of light pollution, washing out the milky way? Or do you reckon it's of very little effect on the captured images?

Thanks for the awesome tutorial Mike (Y). Do you have any plans to do a multi-row pano tutorial?

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, probably in the near future and I will also talk about PTgui with that video as well. I have to go out and capture a multi row pano, so hopefully I can get one on my next trip in a week.

@grahamestilwell7485

7 жыл бұрын

Nice! Look forward to checking it out

How long did you wait from one picture to another? Or was it one second after the previous one?

Great vid,helps alot !!Bug how you managed to get everything in focus at 2.8 ???

@Milkywaymike

3 жыл бұрын

Losfame-studio Thanks for watching!! It’s an ultra wide lens focused at infinity so even at 2.8 everything will be in focus (relatively speaking). If you stop the lens down to F4 or more it will be sharper but then you have to increase ISO or shutter speeds to compensate for the lack of light. Nikon 14-24 is a great lens so it’s still pretty sharp even at F2.8.

Hey Mike Can you use the set up in the video (panning base, tilt monopod and nodal slide rail) to do multi row panoramas or do I need the full blown set up with the vertical bracket etc. like the Nodal Ninja panoramic head for example. Thanks for the video, really well done.

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

This setup will allow you do pull off multi row panoramas of the Milky Way. I've done a couple multi row panoramas with this setup, however the stitching software must be able to handle it. Typically lightroom does fairly well with stitching panoramas however I had problems with lightroom as the number of rows increased so I had to use PTGUI. Make sure you get close to finding the nodal point of your lens which will make stitching a lot easier.

@gnstuff1999

6 жыл бұрын

Milky Way Mike super mate. Thanks for replying I really appreciate

Fantastic tutorial! Thanks Mike! I always have a question about how do you stack images to reduce noice if you shoot milky way panorama, is this even doable?

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Yes its very doable but very time consuming. I've done several techniques... Option 1: Take a set 3 or 4 photos at a higher iso and shorter exposure of 15 seconds. Then use starry landscape stacker for each set of images. Once you stacked each set then you merge all the stacked images as a panorama and you will have a cleaner milky way pano. Option 2: (easier option for a cleaner pano) Take one set of pano images at your typical settings which you will use this mainly for the sky. Then take another set with a longer shutter and lower ISO which you will use for a cleaner foreground. Blend the 2 panoramas in photoshop Option 3: Take one pano set for the foreground at a lower iso and longer shutter or stack several images. Then use a star tracker and create a milky way panorama. Blend the tracked sky with the stacked foreground and this will give you the absolute cleanest milky way panorama possible.

@chrischung3642

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mike for sharing your knowledge and experience, love all your milky way tutorial!

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

I appreciate everyone that watches and supports me! Thank you so much

@leonelpadron5626

4 жыл бұрын

I know it's a bit late. But I don't see anyone talking about star and nebula trails coz I magine those things will be moving and changing position while you take 4-6 shots at 15-20 seconds of exposure. How does Lightroom deal with that? Sorry if it's a stupid question, I've taken tons of milky way shots, just not panoramas and one of the things I'm always conscious about it's not raising the shutter speed any slower than 20s due to earth and stars rotation

Very nice tutorial! Thanks a lot :) Do you have a link for the tripod head? Could not find it in the Amazon list.

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

They don't sell that particular tripod head on amazon anymore. It was a Haoge Tripod Monopod Tilt Head features Panning Base. Here is a similar head by different company. I will see if I can find a cheaper model amzn.to/2ihNriJ

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

Sunwayfoto makes a similar product as well and it has great reviews on Amazon. amzn.to/2iim6gn

@thomaswiik3810

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

Nice Mike! What screen capture software did you use?

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

I use quick time player that came with my imac. If you have QuickTime just open it, go to file "New Screen Recording".... you can also do "new movie recording" and "new audio recording".

Can you use this same setup for multi-row panoramas?

@Milkywaymike

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! However I run into issues with LightRoom sometimes trying to process a multi-row panorama so you may need to use photoshop, PTGUI or some better stitching software.

Hi, do you know how many degrees of rotation should be used with different lenses or where I would find this info

@Milkywaymike

4 жыл бұрын

Andy Rawlins typically you want to overlap about 1/3rd or even 1/2 of the previous image. I’m not sure if their is an app or website to tell you the exact degrees. I would image their is tho

Do you always use the shot vertical for panorama

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

No, Im constantly experimenting different ways (both portrait and landscape orientation) for panoramas and other techniques to create night images.

Mike, I live in the Midwest and am driving to Phoenix this Monday. I want to give some astrophotography a try while out that way. Saw your vids. Great work! On this one, where did you focus and what was your aperture setting. It looks like the patio/walk and lighthouse are pretty sharp. I am thinking you did not shoot this wide open like all the youtube vids recommend. Can you touch on that? Thanks, Bob

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

Bob P thanks!! I was focused at infinity, at 14mm wide f3.2 Shutterstock 20 seconds iso 5000. Ultra wide lenses can capture a lot in focus even wide open. My Nikon 14-24 is really good corner to corner wide open..., that’s why it costs an arm and a leg lol. Tamron 15-30 is arguably just as good for half the price

@scarface1961

6 жыл бұрын

I'll be using a Nikon 14-24 but had no idea it had that much DOF almost wide open. Wow!!! Thanks Mike. I really like your work.

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

No problem and thank you!!

Hi Mike, nice video. Where was the lighthouse? I live on east coast and decent night time sky shots are extremely challenging with all the light pollution. Thanks!

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Hey I live on the east coast to (NJ) so I feel your pain! This was taken at Bodie Island Lighthouse in North Carolina. They have some beautiful lighthouses there like Cape Hatteras Light as well and the skies are really dark.

@JPageRocks

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you give me hope here in Northern VA.

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Dude go to chincoteague island in Virginia! I've been to assateague island in Maryland and it's amazing. yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/10395842/

@JPageRocks

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, seeing that shot makes the 5miilion DEET needed worthwhile. Been there in daytime, never occurred to me to shoot at night. Thanks

@Milkywaymike

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Yeah the mosquitoes tore me up down there!

SO lightroom has no problem stitching the pano with the sky moving and the land stationary? I thought this would require some special software. I was surprised you got a nice sky straight out of the pano merge from lightroom. Taking 13 20sec shots this would lead to the stars moving quite a bit in that time period.

@alberto1701

4 жыл бұрын

Lightroom has no problem even if you take multiple shots of the same portion of sky, stack them and the merge in panorama. No problem at all

Oh my god I need that bracked for my pan head. holy smokes.

What is the bracket attached to your camera that allows for landscape and portrait orientation so easily on a pan head?

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

Just a standard L bracket.. go to amazon and search “L bracket for (insert camera name)” and you should get several versions

@sethshaffer8592

6 жыл бұрын

Milky Way Mike sick thanks!

@sethshaffer8592

6 жыл бұрын

I ordered an L bracket for my 6D and I love it. I cannot believe I did not have one already. It solved my issues I was having with sag in portrait mode. I just ordered the Rail Nodal Slide. Thanks for providing great information! You've done me a great service.

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

I felt the same exact way... in portrait orientation the weight of my camera lens would make it slowly slide down...Not anymore! Glad it met your expectations!

is there a particular time of the year that the milky way is arched across the sky ?

@Milkywaymike

5 ай бұрын

I don’t recall… most like May or June.

@cameraman2157

5 ай бұрын

@@Milkywaymike thank you

no way to remove dead pixels? .lovely stuff though

@Milkywaymike

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I would imagine you can just clone out dead pixels in lightroom or photoshop in a still image... for video it might be a little harder.