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I am Jeroen Linnenkamp, a landscape astrophotography enthusiast from The Netherlands. Join me on my adventures under the night sky, photographing the milky way, star constellations, planets, the moon, distant galaxies and everything else the universe has to offer.
I will also take you along with the planning process involved with a nightscape image, talk about equipment, show you how to shoot in the field and share in depth post processing photo editing tutorials.
My goal is to inspire you to start your own astro adventure, get the best results you can and enjoy the beautiful experience of being out under the stars.
This is StarScaper.
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(Dutch below)
Ik ben Jeroen Linnenkamp. Een astrofotografie enthousiasteling uit Nederland. Ga je mee op avontuur in het donker?
I will also take you along with the planning process involved with a nightscape image, talk about equipment, show you how to shoot in the field and share in depth post processing photo editing tutorials.
My goal is to inspire you to start your own astro adventure, get the best results you can and enjoy the beautiful experience of being out under the stars.
This is StarScaper.
Ambassador for @moveshootmove
(Dutch below)
Ik ben Jeroen Linnenkamp. Een astrofotografie enthousiasteling uit Nederland. Ga je mee op avontuur in het donker?
Photographing the Perseid Meteor Shower with an Aurora Surprise!
Together with friends I head out under the stars in my home country The Netherlands to capture the Perseid meteor shower of 2024. I also plan on filming as many shooting stars live on video as possible. How many will we catch? There are also chances of Aurora Borealis during our astrophotography trip. Will the Northern Lights show themselves? Find out in part 1 of this nightscape photography adventure.
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How Dark Are Your Skies, Really? An Astrophotographer’s Perspective.
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As an astrophotographer you want to capture the stars under as dark a sky as possible. We use tools like light pollution maps to estimate how dark a location will be. But how dark is your sky, really? In this video I am surprised to learn that I have totally misunderstood the bortle scale for years! I also go out to measure the darkness of the sky with a Sky Quality Meter. #Astrophotography #Ni...
Mastering Landscape Astrophotography - A Guide to Capturing the Milky Way!
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Learn the basics of Nightscape Photography and master the art of capturing the Milky Way in this beginners guide. Discover essential tips and techniques to enhance your Night Sky photography skills. From selecting the right equipment to finding the perfect location, this tutorial will help you create stunning Night Sky images for your portfolio. Join me on this adventure under the night sky to ...
Move Shoot Move Nomad Star Tracker Review
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On my Nightscape Landscape Astrophotography adventure to La Palma I got to put the Move Shoot Move (MSM) Nomad Star Tracker to the test. How accurately does this small, lightweight and compact device track the stars? What is great about it and what could be improved? Is it for you? Find out now! GET 5% DISCOUNT ON THE MOVE SHOOT MOVE NOMAD! If you are interested in buying the Nomad, please cons...
Deepscape Astrophotography in the Darkest Skies of Europe
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I set out under the dark bortle 2 skies of La Palma to create some deepscape images of Rho Ophiuchi and the Milky Way above various telescopes. In this nightscape astrophotography adventure we also capture some wide angle opportunities and do a panorama. The evening ended not as I expected... I use my astromodified Canon 6D and Nikon Z6 with 20mm, 50mm and 135mm lenses, riding on the SkyWatcher...
Photographing the Milky Way in La Palma: Europe's Ultimate Nightscape Location
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I embark on the ultimate nightscape photography adventure I could ever imagine. Together with Martijn Jacobs I set out to photograph the night sky and specifically the milky way on the Spanish island of La Palma. It's isolation in the sea ensures dark bortle 2 skies around, whereas the height of the volcanic ridgeline (Roque de los Muchachos area) at 2400 meters height increases the chances of ...
Photographing the Milky Way Core from a Dark Sky Hotel
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In this nightscape astrophotography adventure we set out to capture the rising milky way galactic core. We stay at the best place imaginable: a lone hotel on a mountain top under dark bortle 3 skies. This might be one of the most relaxing astrophotography sessions I have ever had. And still, there is never enough time... I shoot with my Nikon Z6 which has now been successfully astro modified by...
High-Detail Milky Way Photography: Capturing a 50mm Mosaic of the Cygnus Region
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In this Nightscape Astrophotography Adventure I capture my most detailed picture of the Milky Way yet. With a 50mm lens I make 46 shots of the Cygnus Region which are then combined in a Mosaic / Multi-Row Panorama of almost 100 Megapixel!
Biggest Aurora Show in 21 Years! Capturing the G5 Geomagnetic Storm from Holland (May 10th, 2024)
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On May 10th 2024 the largest geomagnetic storm in 21 years took place. It caused huge Northern Light displays over a good part of the Earth. The Aurora was even visible at places like Spain and Africa. Unheard of! I witnessed this history in the making moment in my home country The Netherlands at 52 degrees North. Join me as I try to photograph and vlog this once in a lifetime astronomical event.
Cloudy Nights, Stellar Sights: Photographing the Milky Way Core
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In this Nightscape Photography adventure we head out to a dark bortle 3 region in France to photograph the rising Milky Way Galactic Core. The weather forecast is tricky, but we decide to take the gamble. Although the clouds continue to haunt us, we have a great night of landscape astrophotography where the Milky Way mysteriously reveals itself through gaps between the clouds. Should we call th...
Capturing Interplanetary Dust: Zodiacal Light Astrophotography at the Coast
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In this nightscape photography adventure I set out to the Dutch coast to photograph the Zodiacal light. It is a faint glow of interplanetary dust, reflected by the sun along the line of the ecliptic. We also try to photography star reflections, Orion setting into the sea, the winter milky way and comet Pons Brooks. SUPPORT THE CHANNEL By watching, liking, subscribing and commenting on the video...
The 7 Most Frustrating Challenges in Astrophotography
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In this Nightscape Photography adventure I set out with the goal to shoot the rising Milky Way core. In the mountains of the German Harz area a lot goes awry. It inspired me to make this video about the 7 most frustrating challenges we face as astrophotographers. I am not complaining, we have the best hobby in the world. However, I think it is important to know it doesn't always work out the wa...
Orion's Farewell: Nightscape Photography Adventure in the Mountains
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In this landscape astrophotography adventure I capture the star constellation Orion one last time this season. To reach our shooting location on top of the mountain we first have some rock climbing to do. Not an easy task for a guy from the flattest country on earth. I end up making a focus stack and exposure blend for my foreground. The sky is tracked on a star tracker and stacked for noise re...
Astrophotography Adventure: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, Zodiacal Light, Milky Way Panorama & More
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In this Nightscape Photography Adventure we capture Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, do some Deep Sky Astrophotography of the Horsehead and Orion Nebula, try to shoot the Zodiacal Light, make a Landscape Astrophotography shot of Orion and do a tracked Winter Milky Way Panorama Arch over sea. Together with green Airglow, red Aurora Borealis also makes an appearance on the horizon. What more can you wish f...
Chasing Northern Lights: An Arctic Astrophotography Adventure of a Lifetime
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Together with Frank Verburg I go on an epic Photography Adventure above the Arctic Circle to Senja, Norway. We face the full force of Polar weather conditions as we try to capture majestic snow capped mountains, rumbling waves of the sea and the elusive green glow of the Northern Lights under a starlit Nordic landscape. As always, not everything goes as planned... SUPPORT THE CHANNEL By watchin...
Chasing Orion: Astrophotography Adventure at the Lighthouse in Challenging Conditions
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Landscape Astrophotography: Orion in HaRGB and the Cygnus Region of the Milky Way
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Photographing the Cygnus region of the Milky Way, Orion and Clouds
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Photographing the Cygnus region of the Milky Way, Orion and Clouds
From Dream to Disaster: My Unforgettable Astrophotography Failure (Geminid Meteor Shower 2023)
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From Dream to Disaster: My Unforgettable Astrophotography Failure (Geminid Meteor Shower 2023)
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Photographing Orion in HaRGB at a Remote Radio Transmitter
How to Forecast the Aurora: Never miss a Northern Lights show again!
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How to Forecast the Aurora: Never miss a Northern Lights show again!
Photographing the Great Rift region of the Milky Way
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Photographing the Great Rift region of the Milky Way
Photographing Orion(ids) and the Winter Night Sky
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Photographing Orion(ids) and the Winter Night Sky
Deep Sky Photography Made Easy: Dwarf II Smart Telescope Review
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Deep Sky Photography Made Easy: Dwarf II Smart Telescope Review
7 Amazing Nightscape Photography Ideas WITHOUT the Milky Way Core
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A Night to Remember: Unforgettable Nightscape Photography
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A Night to Remember: Unforgettable Nightscape Photography
Never Give Up: My Astrophotography Story in Spain
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Never Give Up: My Astrophotography Story in Spain
Improve Your Milky Way Photography: 3 Essential Composition Tips
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Improve Your Milky Way Photography: 3 Essential Composition Tips
You missed around 20 meteors on your count and maybe more :) I shot the Perseïds and they increased by the hour. I even saw a big one while it was already getting light. Waar hebben jullie gestaan dat jullie overal de horizon konden zien en uiteraard dat het zo donker was?
Oh yeah, definitely I missed some. But we had to rest a little bit for a bigger trip the next day. To be continued!
Beautiful vlog! So funny you got the excitement of everyone around when the aurora hit! Great spirit!
Thanks ever again for watching Jan! And yes! That excitement was definitely buzzing around haha. Although I was a bit limited myself I enjoyed it soooo much! 😃👌.
Very interesting vlog. I'm suprised by all the colourful meteor you caught while filming ! I time-lapsed that night with a camera pointing at the North star to make a circumpolar. Seeing the aurora on the screen of my camera was a nice surprise.
Inwas surprised as well! And indeed, the aurora was such a surprise. Couldn't believe how 2 brilliant celestial events came together! 😃
The intro was a little bit funny, like the starscaper squad and his lost brother (sorry Jeroen). Great night, clear skies, meteors and aurora 🎉
Hahaha. Glad you thought it was funny! Definately my intention. I wanted to make specifically these 2 frames for 2 months now. Pursuaded the guys to take 10 minutes extra time for this little piece of humor haha.
@StarScaperPhoto but on the other side hopefully you get well soon
@Kevin.kistermann bit by bit 👌. Glad I could still enjoy the night sky in the meantime with some help of all the awesome guys!
Big success with meteors and aurora, great !
Thank you! Definitely a night to remember! Although I wish my planned composition would have matched the aurora show a bit better. Ah well, I decided to roll with it and just enjoy. Sometimes you just got to enjoy :-).
Great Vlog Jeroen! I laughed seeing Martijn running like crazy to get the Aurora!! Lots of excitement that night. I managed a couple of hours before weather busted me but managed to see some meteors and light pillars too. I tried filming the night sky on my Canon6d with a prime lens at f/1.4 but failed miserably! Are you able to offer me any advice on what equipment (and technique) that is good for night video shots??
Haha, that moment was hilarious indeed! I bet if I could run now I would be exactly the same 😄. Nice to hear you captured some meteors! For filming the night sky, in my experience only the Sony S series or now the ZV-E1 can do it well. I use an S1 and since this vlog also a ZV-E1 with 20mm lenses wide open at f1.8 and an ISO of 100.000. In post I run Neat Noise Reduction over each clip to clean up some of the noise.
@@StarScaperPhoto Thanks for the advice. I'll look into this and see if I can Vlog a bit in the future. :)👍
You should! I need more astrovloggers to watch! 😃. You can pick up 2nd hand S1's for pretty cheap these days. Besides that, just try and give it a go with what you have. I have vlogged 1,5 years or so with my Fuji X-T2 which was far from ideal, but got the story across.
weer een super video Jeroen, Ik was op dat moment zelf in Zweden en daar was het nog beter te zien ondanks dat het daar wellicht iets minder donker was🙂
Dankjewel! En wat gaaf joh! Nog kunnen vastleggen?
Great video! Ha ha, I said to myself "just wait" when I heard you say that it wasn´t that powerful 😅 I´m working on my own video but it´s hard to put together since I was just running around like a headless chicken not believing my eyes! Didn´t have time for b-roll. But that was on the night of 12-13 of August, which I suspect is your part two 🙂
Thank you Martin! That will indeed be the part 2. I am looking forward to your account of that night. Sounds like proper chaos, as we had also 😅
I am so jealous of you having so much fun!! But I am happy for you. Keep making these videos, we love them!
Thanks so much! Having fun is so important. Lately I care about just enjoying the experience so much more than a good photo even!
Good to see you up and about. Those are some great images!
Thanks for watching and great to hear you liked the results! 😃
Wat gaaf Jeroen! (heb je nog steeds mijn oude Samyang 24 lens in gebruik?)
Dankjewel Onno! Ondanks dat de lens fantastisch was ben ik een tijd geleden overgestapt naar een 14-24 voor wat meer flexibiliteit. Inmiddels gebruik ik een Nikon Z6 met daarop een 20mm prime. Je blijft bezig hè 😉
Nice Jeroen!
Thanks Jens!
What a great video! ❤ I've been chasing aurora from the bedroom window, with a bit of luck. I'll save to try for the Perseids next year.
Nothing wrong with a room with a view 😎
Awesome video, Jeroen - so rich and engaging visually and a great story of the night. So glad you all (nearly all of you!) caught the aurora too. Absolutely fantastic video - loved it.
Thanks Paul! I really loved making this one. Supernice to read it shows 😃
Wow ! 😲 such a wonderful vlog 🙌🌌❤️
Thank you so much!!
Great Vlog again Jeroen....just always a pleasure to watch and see how excited you get when being out at night. Also great to see a vid of that night since I wasn´t able to go and shoot...:)
Great you enjoyed the video again Benjamin. Thanks for watching as always! Too bad you weren't able to go out yourself though!
Such a shame I had to leave early that night.. damn work 😅 Although I had a great night under the stars.
@@frankverburg great to hear that man. Definately enjoyed it a lot also. Thanks for driving me there! About high time we start thinking about a cool photo trip to some cool location, Frank from Norway.
I feel like Jeroen owes you a night of aurora, Frank!!
@@nightscapejournals @frankverburg from Norway has aurora all the time man 😁
Woah :D this vlog was a complete new level... much more cinematic and some great b-roll. One can tell you put a lot of effort into it! And ofc the conditions and meteors - such a unique year this year.
Thanks a bunch Matej! I really loved putting this one together 😃. It also helped we had looots of time which makes the experience so much more relaxt 👌
Greetings…I’m hoping to shoot star trails tonight here in Pennsylvania in the US (August 22, 2024) and the moon is at waning 87% which will quite bright. If you said what your long exposure shutter speed was I missed it…I often shoot with a 30 second shutter speed but am not sure that’s what I need with the moon as bright as it is.
Good luck and have fun! Just try to shoot for a histogram where the peak doesn't come right tonthe middle and you're good I'd say.
I photographed that evening, and while the perseids were particularly disappointing this year, the appearance of the aurora made it a memorable night!
That was the big surprise, right? I think they produced a relative low number of large fireballs but besides that, the numbers definately didn't disappoint!
Hi, wonderful tutorial! May I ask often for a landscape images like this, how much HA data you collect compare to your rgb data?
Thank you! For a landscape image I usually collect 10-30 minutes of ha for a boost.
Thanks! I did it with the Perseids 2024 😉
Awesome! Hope you caught a lot!
Super tutorial ! Hartelijk bedankt hiervoor.
Good video and some good tips here. Ideally you need to rotate the meteors so that they are referenced against the same stars they appeared by at time of capture. It looks like plenty aren't coming from the radiant now. E.g. the star background changes over 2-3 hours of shooting.
I agree! That's why I advice to ideally use a tracker, so that your frame remains the same the entire night. Otherwise you could manually change your frame every now and again while shooting and doing the alignment yourself or with the help of the staralignment module in PixInsight for example.
Great interesting video. Learned something new today about measuring light pollution. How is the recovery going now? Nice to see that you have been out again 🌌
Thanks for letting me know Mark! Great to hear you've picked up some new knowledge. Recovery is going forward, slow but steady. Managed to get out 2 entire nights for the Perseids with the help of the guys, which was absolutely fantastic!
Great video! Great tips for me to start off some astrophotography ❤ liked and subscribed 😃👍
That's great to hear! Hope you will enjoy your time under the stars!
thanks for this info! this would be my first tracker - do you recommend it for that? is the alignment process difficult? the size is very appealing (and no counter-weight etc).
My pleasure! Alignment with the laser is super easy, in the Northern Hemisphere at least. Definately recommended as first tracker if your goal is to shoot wide angle.
@@StarScaperPhoto thanks - yes, 14mm 1.8 or 24mm 1.4! if I go ahead, I'll try to use your link (they also send a discount good for 24 hrs, not sure if I can use both together).
Those lenses will be perfect for the Nomad! Thx for trying to use the link! Discount code 'starscaper' also works. Hope you have some good adventures with the Nomad!
@@StarScaperPhoto hey I did order the nomad and a few of the other items and confirmed that they have you as the affiliate for that purchase. thx again!
@@DaveStern2 thank you! I'm sure you will love it 👌
In winter the skies are definitely better, less moisture in atmosphere and more transparency. Saturday I was in Austria under a bortle 2 (21.93) rated sky at 2000m of altitude (drove more than 200km). It was amazing, the cygnus area was like tridimensional but unfortunately a bit too much moisture ruined the sky a little...magnifying the lights around, and condensing on all my lenses 😅 Also there was too much airplane...it was so annoying because in processing the intermittent plane lightswere mistaken by the stacking software for stars! 🫨
Can't help the airplanes, right? ;-). Hope you'll fix it though. Sounds like a great location.
Thank you , very helpful!
Thank you for sharing. I used your methodology on my shoot from last night. Your teaching made the process of processing and particularly blending the meteors into one image very easy indeed.
That is great to hear! How many did you catch?
Great videos always, Jeroen! I'm wondering if other than mercury/sodium lights would make differences. LED/neon lights known by its scattered lights on the atmosphere. Oftenly, a little amount of haze might ruin my shot due to lack of detail. What do you think?
Thanks for watching! I am not sure if the type of lighting matters that much as compared to the direction they are facing. If you use light pollution filters, sodium is much more easy to isolate than LED, but other than that...
Hard in europe to find something good, in hungary theres barely any REALLY dark places. I went 150km away to find 21.86 dark sky, it was amazing, i saw hundreds of meteorites and captured great images, also I have never seen the milky way like that, its truly astonishing. Althought I wouldve loved if there is a proper subject to capture too, like some castle or something, and its quite annoying everywhere I went there were hunters shooting, I even ran into one who just came to the site, he let me shoot for a while, then I went somewhere else, I was too loud for him(I was there first though, here in hungary hunters are really obnoxious...), anyways second site was just as bad, somebody shooting about, they all have thermal cameras, didn't want to get shot so I went away again, finally found a good location with a nice sunflower field and on the side of busy street so no way they shoot in that direction, only downside sometimes cars coming ruining my exposure. Otherwise good, i even gave up on shooting for a bit, just chill, laid on my back like in movies. Awesome experience. (Elon can suck a fat one with his Star Link sattelites, 6284 sattelites in orbit are Star Link out of 9900 total sattelites, crazy!, ruins my pictures and even naked eye view)
21.86 is amazing! What a story though, sounds like quite the adventure 😅
'Nothing is scientifically measured'? All 'observation' is human. I think you mean 'low variance' or reproducible. There is nothing 'unscientific' about the Bortle scale.
I might have used the wrong wording indeed. Thanks for correcting!
Thankyou my camera shooting perseid meteor ☄️ outside the house. And im on my bed. 😂
Great video
I intend to do only wide angle pictures is the laser enough to setup ?
Most definately. I use 20mm myself and laser is more than enough.
Great vid! Thank you for the short and concise tips… perfect for a novice astrophotographer like myself. I’m a bit confused about your exposure times. I may have missed a beat when you were explaining the differences btwn your “nice and simple” and “maximum results” methods. Using a star tracker you said you’re 1-2 min exposures at F4 and ISO 800. Then you are advocating for shorter exposures at higher ISO to get brighter, longer meteors. Was that comment in reference back to your “nice and simple” method vs using a star tracker? I do not have a star tracker at this time so will be shooting the Perseids peak tonight without. Do you have a lesson or tutorial posted that shows how you adjust the angle of the meteors in post processing?
Glad to help! In the tracked method I make a base shot for the sky tracked with longer exposure and afterwards let my tracker run with shorter exposures for the meteors. Advantage is that you shoot the same part of the sky the whole evening and don't have to adjust tje angles yourself afterwards. If you don't have a tracker I'd advice just manually adjusting your angle every now and then and make tje alignmeny manually in Photoshop by turning and moving the frame.over your base shot untill it aligns well enough. Good luck and happy hunting!
Very good tutorial, so instructive! Many thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Literally just got my SQM meter yesterday! Excited to contribute to the Globe at Night project. I have 21.45 within a 45min drive so I feel pretty fortunate. further north is some VERY dark skies, excited to measure those areas.
Wow, that's really good!
Thank You for your willingness to share.. I'm feeling much better about heading out tonight and tomorrow night.
My pleasure! Good luck and happy hunting!
Weer een interessante video, moet dat artikel over die bortle schaal eens proberen te vinden om te lezen.
Dankjewel! Die ga je wel vinden hoor. 1 van de eerste resultaten als je googlet op bortle scale.
@@StarScaperPhoto dat gaat me lukken 😉
Nice!! The temperature of de SQM itself can interfere in the measuring. Also the atmosphere conditions and the area of the sky you are pointing... not the same pointing to de MW than any other spot around the zenit.
Atmospheric conditions and which part of the sky I already noticed. The rest is new for me, thanks for sharing!
Bekende locatie, (voor mij dan) ga hier komende maandag de perseiden schieten, ben je er dan ook?
Leuke locatie idd! Ik denk dat ik op een andere locatie ben.
The milkyway is bright enough to affect the reading. So will any planets in the FOV. I have been creating a map on my website of SQM readings for my location at our website and found differences with the satellite based data
That's super interesting indeed!
Amazing Video und i like the kind you can explain the thinks! Wow! Can you tell me where this nice rock formation exactly is? I was there two years ago and i did not see this nice formation.
Thank you! Take the path right from Andenes. About half an hours walk. Can't miss.
Bortle4 huh...
Just on the edge of a 5, but just in the 4 range indeed. I'm not complaining though :-).
@@StarScaperPhoto Waar denk je dat ik zit? :)
I live in the Po Valley, north part of Italy, and there is a huge light pollution, the quality for the dark sky is terrible, i am forced to go to observe the sky from Apennino mountains with SQM 20.90/21.00. Also there are affected by the lights of the surrounded towns.
Dark skies are rare indeed unfortunately. I think we should try nevertheless to make the best of what we get as astrophotographers, no matter the sky quality.
Very interesting, our light pollution here in southern England is really bad as well, the bortle scale for me says a 4/5 I'm sure it's more like a six.😢
Yup, it is definately getting worse. I am glad though we as photohraphers have the option to collect more data and do post processing. Nothing beats being under a true dark sky yourself though.
Step over to the Rotterdam/The Hague area. Or enjoy any of the Dutch Green houses. Grtz from Borttle 8-9
@eddelarie8161 wow you must do narrowband 😅
Nicely done, mate. You made the subject really digestible and interesting. 👏 I guess sky conditions also massively impacts the results for both Bortle and SQM - a bit more moisture etc and we’ll get worse results from both.
Thanks Paul! And you do make a good point. Atmospheric conditions definately impact the sky. Moisture for sure has a large impact which scatters the light pollution around more than it should.
crazy good details you guys manage to get out of that sky, awesome
Thanks Rob! We try 😄