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Astrophotography Settings And Tips | How to Shoot Stars and the Night Sky

In this tutorial, award-winning astrophotographer Phil Hart shares his photography advice to show you how to shoot great photographs of the night sky, stars, space and the moon. From how to choose a sturdy tripod to setting up your camera properly, what lens to choose and where to focus, to what exposure settings to use, here are his tips for awesome night sky photography and astrophotography.

0:53 – Equipment
1:12 – Focus
1:38 – Exposure
1:55 – ISO
2:15 – White Balance
2:28 – Star Trail
3:04 – Time Lapse

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Phil Hart has been enjoying and photographing the night sky for nearly twenty years. His award winning photos have been published in books, magazines and popular websites around the world. He is the two-time winner of the David Malin Astrophotography Award and author of the Shooting Stars eBook. He has previously run Night Sky Photography Workshops in partnership with Michaels Camera Store in Melbourne.

You can find more of Phil’s work at http://www.philhart.com

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17 Replies to “Astrophotography Settings And Tips | How to Shoot Stars and the Night Sky”

  1. The shots or Timelapse videos where you have something interesting in the foreground that’s in focus and Timelapse going on in the sky, is that all done at the same time or is usually a composite of two shots blended together?

  2. Wonderful video for the ones that are discovering the joy of Astrophotography. Than you Phil

  3. what is the best camera to use with a telescope to take pictures of the space?

  4. This was amazing. Thank you so much!! We have recorded dozens of night sky videos using Canon 80D and the videos were amazing. Low ISO has helped a lot and for focusing stars so far we have tried focus peaking (digitally zooming at a bright star and the zooming out to original) .

  5. They say that more frames is better, but, for example, my goal is to have 90 light frames and due to weather conditions I can only take 30 light frames. To have 100, can I copy the 30 I took and duplicate them twice to reach 90? Will I get a better image and date to process later or does it not work? If it works it will be much faster to have 100/200/300 frames.

    I don't know if I made myself clear, but If someone can answer me I would appreciate it.

  7. Thank you so much. I got it to work and I’m just a highschool student. It’s not as pure as your pictures but I’m gonna try and photoshop it to make it pop more.

  12. What is a good telephoto focal length and aperture? I have a few vintage options which are long. Not sure if they will be too dark with a teleconverter on each end.

  14. Seriously.. I truly appreciate your time and effort and also for sharing this amazing tutorial with us… The results of your astrophotography are stunning! Thank you so much.

  15. i would have thought focussing to infinity would be the correct selexion.

  16. just bought a canon eos t7. it can only go to an apeture of 4.0 but I'm gonna try your settings and see what happens

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