Photographing the Milky Way.

Steven Christenson

Following a series of articles from Star Circle Academy I finally opted for trying my luck at photographing our dear swirl of magic, The Milky Way.

Our Galaxy is somewhere between 100,000 and 120,000 light years in diameter and is home to about 400 billion stars. That's a lot of tiny little dots of lights in our night sky. I have alwys seen amazing pictures taken of the Milky Way, but I have never attempted to do it myself.

So now that I stumbled upon this article, I started my googling journey to find comprehensive instructions.

Starting from the first part here.

following to the Second Part

and arriving to the Final Part

Funny enough, as I contemplate on trying my luck tonight or tomorrow night while we are visiting my inlaws in Keminmaa (low light polution, way up north, etc) I went to check the current moon phase, since it's best to try these pictures with low moonlight. And oh behold! Today actually we have a new moon, so it would be perfect, weather allowing. You can check the moon phases here.

Anyways that's it for right now, as I need to prepare for the tediously long train trip to the north. If I manage to produce something worthy, I'll be posting a followup with the pictures. But for now, I leave this here in case anyone is interested and might want to try their luck too.

Happy Syysloma! or Autumn break!