Originally posted by bassbone:
You need to be far away from light pollution. Trying to find this in the NJ/NY area is highly unlikely. You best bet is to go to upstate NY, VT, or NH, far away from any cities. You will need cool/cold nights, dry conditions, no clouds, and lots of luck. |
Yup.
Here's a Bortle Map so you can look around for areas with less light pollution. You need to get further than you probably think. This was taken around 40 miles as the crow flies from Denver and as you can see, the light pollution is extremely prominent 
This one was taken near the Wyoming border at 11,500 feet, in conditions most would call legitimately pitch black , but if I exposed towards the nearest city, which was around 55 miles as the crow flies and approximately 125,000 people in size, I still got a lot of light pollution 
Be aware that you'll be shooting at very high ISO, so your 6D should do a good job with it. This one was taken at ISO 2500 @ F4  . In any case though, the amount of light pollution out here is levels of magnitude lower than the east where you can hardly see any stars at all by comparison.
There have been a good number of other threads posted, here are a couple-
some good tips, lots of discussion about DPC rules and star trails as well
This one is better, and also has several other links I've posted within it
And, of course, there's this other one that just got bumped today
Message edited by author 2013-01-03 22:23:01. |
