Thank you Alyn. As ever, Alyn is generous, understanding and giving. Don't hesitate to acquire a copy of his book. Like the night sky and like the author of the book, it is an immensity and an infinite resource.
Thanks for the resources Alyn. I’ve followed and enjoyed your content for quite a while. Your “Photographing the Night Sky” is a great resource and I referenced it last night. Your passion for astrophotography is inspiring as is your willingness to help the rest of us.
My biggest struggle is color accuracy in editing. I am colorblind, so I'm always looking for tips and tricks on editing workflows that focus more on settings, vs visual impressions. I've found a video that is really helpful on this from American landscape photographer Mark Denney. He has incredible content and a very humble and instructive approach. But I'm always looking for more information that will help me with faithful editing.
I'm literally with Mark right now in Menorca for the PhotoPills camp haha But yes colour theory is difficult enough for people who are not colour blind. It's the one thing that I still work on to this day and even still, it just takes time for your eyes to mature and "see" colour correctly, especially in astro.
Have you tried color grading in software like Davinci Resolve? It's meant for video but it has incredibly robust color grading tools including scopes, histograms, vector graphs, curves, luma vs sat adjustments n all sorts of things that might be able to give you an idea of color accuracy and manipulation in a technical way.... idk might be worth looking into. The free version of the software has 100% of the features you'd need.
A fountain of knowledge... Thanks for the heads up on Microsoft ICE👌. The thing I mostly struggle with is implementing everything Ive learned these past few years whilst out in the field, Its like scatterbrain at times and i forget simple things like putting my lense warmer on or kicking my tripod or not locking things down so i have to start over again 😂 Cheers for another Usefull video practice makes perfect 🤞
I don't think any discussion about night shooting and composition would be compete without mentioning Nightscapeimages, I've learned much from your videos.
Very good advice Alyn, thank you. I look forward to your video on colour in astrophotography. Choosing the "correct" white balance, saturation and clarity (in different parts of the image) is an area I struggle with.
Another great Video, I really like where you are going with your RUclips sight. Very thoughtful and original. I will definitely check out these other photographers you mentioned.
This has been an ongoing subject since I can remember. I don't personally buy new gear anymore as I have what I need, and if that is not enough, then I should give up photography altogether. I see it all the time, all the best, most expensive gear and no idea 😂. Photography companies do very well off the back off amateur photographers who seem to think buying more gear makes them a better photographer. The key as you rightly say, is practice and learn about the gear you already own. If it is limiting, then upgrade, but know why you need to upgrade not because you think it will improve your photography, Hansel Adams had very limited gear, but he managed to create master pieces. There is so much info out there that for a person starting out photography, it can be a mine field of spending unwisely.
Excellent Alyn. I'm a portrait photographer who occasionally branches out into other genres and, strangely, I often find aspects of your stuff applicable to portraits.
Color theory in landscape astro, is very difficult to find good info on. Ordinary Color balance and theory is everywhere but not for Astro. I am so so so excited to see the video once you create it. Hopefully it’s in depth so, us out there who could use good help with this, are very satisfied with it. Great video today, and I look forward to next months witns…. I still need to watch this months, cause I’d like to get out, now that the ice weather is FINALLY Here! Thank you dude!
Wow, thanks for all of the resources. I am familiar with most of them, but there were a couple that I am looking forward to exploring and revisiting. Your recommendation to get out an shoot is the only way to learn and improve your astrophotography skills. Thanks for such a great resource video.
My biggest struggle’s probably a common one: motivating myself to get out and take photos given that I live in an area with a fair amount of light pollution and rarely have ‘free evenings’ and ‘cloudless evenings’ coincide. Clearer skies can be found further away, but it’s hard to be inspired when I probably don’t have time to drive very far from the city lights
You could buy a light pollution filter, they work very well for me in my City of Norwich. I've had some great images from my back garden of nebula and other space stuff. It can be done with filters although a tad expensive, filters for the Canon eosr which goes between the lens and sensor cost around £180 and the same for the canon m6 mkii.
Wow awesome! So much valuable knowledge esp. on colour theory! I always struggle with that one the most. Thankw Alyn! And thanks for mentioning all the other channels! 👍
Excellent video as always. I have been following you for a while. It was a pleasure to meet you at PhotoPills. I appreciate your help with my moiré issue. I’m heading home now and look forward to seeing if I can fix the issue in my photos. Also, color theory keeps popping up. I will definitely dive into this subject. I have always been curious about it. Thank you for your information.
Thanks for reaching into the elements of Fine Art. Astrophotographers can use some exposure to color theory and composition. As always, the problem (or quality, depending on how you look at it) is all of the elements are somewhat subjective. But that doesn’t mean everyone can’t use some basic knowledge. Classical art can surely teach us. Thanks again for diving in there.
fantastic wealth of info and ways to get more! Thanks for doing this video. It isn't a flashy video and doesn't highlight your skills/photography as much, but it is super helpful to us!
Excellent content! Your book AND your LR Presets have helped me out immensely! My biggest struggle is focusing at night…but your video on that topic gave me great tips to help! THANK YOU!
Great Video Alyn!! It's so true, That Better gear doesn't make you a Better Photographer. But Trying Different Things with your camera does!! Loved the video!
Thanks for the new video, for your advices (go out and shoot! 😄) and for sharing your recommended resouces (very useful!). I'm struggling with editing. I am at a stage (rookie) when 1) I'd like to get just out of the camera an image that closely reflects what I saw when I did the shot. 2) I don't like much to edit. It's frustrating, because 1) is rarely fulfilled, let alone in nightscapes. I guess I have to admit (the sooner the better) that 1) is plainly impossible and to overcome my "fear" to editig.
Thanks for another great video Alyn! I particularly appreciate the insightful recommendations for where to go to learn more in the areas of composition and color theory. Thanks!
Been following Dave Morrow for years Alyn and find his website and his tutorials to be an excellent source of information. I like the way he approaches his photography using his background in aero engineering as a framework
Thanks for all the useful hints and tips. I struggle to find compositions that will work well at night with any given sky. I think more daytime scouting will help, but busy family life means my only free time is at night!
#1 is so key. I remember a musician once saying, “It doesn’t matter what kind of studio you have if you’re in there working." Incredible songs have been recorded with the most basic gear. All the effects and top of the line tech can often just confuse you and take out the creativity. Plus, once you get all you can out of your gear and know how to use it well, you'll know exactly what gear you need next and why, and that will up your level automatically as soon as you do upgrade. And for another quote, one can't put it much better than this National Geographic maxim: "F/8 and be there."
Dude, amazing video! It doesn't matter what level one is. This video stills a good approach. It's like a life looping process to go through those topics again and again. 👏
Thanks Alyn, a different video from you full of great educational information and resources for the nightscaper. I have recently started imaging with an astro modified Sony a74 and am struggling to get the colour balance sorted. It would be interesting to see your opinion of how to successfully process astro modified images. As an Australian nightscaper, I have shot with John Rutter and Richard Tatti of Nightscape Images. Both of these fellows are so good at what they do, I highly recommend both. 👌
Hi Alyn, I am going on a trip soon and I want to take the picture of the milky way, but with full moon in the sky. I will be ever grateful if you could share some tips/camera settings to capture milky way along with full moon, please.
Thanks for helpful video. Recommend Micheal Shaunblum for a mix of landscape and Astro. I’d be interested in a steep by step guide of apps like photopills, and a review of star trackers and how to actually set one up and use it.
Image Composite Editor is good especially for new photographers. There are better professional options, but I can't think of anything else that has allowed complete newbie family and friends make great panoramas over the last decade.
nice video Alyn, composition is definitely a big one. Its almost like milky way, aurora or lightening is a get out of jail free card for poor compositions!
Buying new gear will make you better if you are ready. The only time it makes sense to buy a new gear is if the only thing is holding you back in terms of taking your images to the next level is the limitations of the gear you own. There is nothing more satisfying, then getting a new piece of equipment when you absolutely exhausted what your current equipment is capable and immediately your images go to the next level. On the flipside, there’s no bigger waste of money, and making a purchase too early and seen either know or very marginal improvements, because there are still so many other issues with your technique, processing, or many of the other fundamentals
As someone who has just upgraded from an APC camera after 5 years of night shooting to a Full Frame camera, I couldn't agree more. You have to master shooting, composition and processing with your existing gear and then move on to better gear. I found that working though the limitations of an older, small sensor camera really helped with the processing side of things.
What star tracker would you recommend for a beginner who is tec savy, but wants something not too heavy that I can trek out to locations with. I was looking though your videos and found one from 3 years ago, but are there any new ones that are better. thanks
Move Shoot Move or iOptron Sky Tracker are good lightweight options. Move Shoot Move will also be releasing a new tracker called the Nomad soon too. Smaller lighter and stronger than the original
I have a Canon 6D astro modded. I edit Milky Way shots in Lightroom and Photoshop. If you have this software I find the easiest way is to use the colour picker (white balance setting) on a neutral area of sky. Or you could ramp up vibrancy and saturation sliders to 100% and play with white balance to 'guess' a decent tonal range before resetting sliders back to zero to see if your 'guess' was correct? Either way the pinkish cast should disappear but reddish nebulae your astro mod was done for will still be present!
Thanks for the heads up, don't use light room or photoshop. Any suggestions for in camera white balance? I've just set it up in direct sunlight with grey card etc. Going to try it out tmrw night
@@djceire custom white balance is fine for daytime photography (in bright light) but I believe for night time just leave it set to AWB or Sunny setting. You should be shooting in RAW format so your white balance can be adjusted anyway in processing to match the scene.
Dude, put your book in Amazon US market please. You just send to a shipping center and Amazon ships it out for you. I went to buy your book but couldnt. The US markwt is crazy good. Id give it a "shot"!😅
I'm in no rush to sell on Amazon I'm afraid, the price reduction and fees mean I would only make £2-3 per book. We ship to the US and it takes less than a week usually. When the second print run happens we're hoping to send some stock to a US warehouse to reduce the shipping cost.
I'm in no rush to sell on Amazon I'm afraid, the price reduction and fees mean I would only make £2-3 per book. We ship to the US and it takes less than a week usually. When the second print run happens we're hoping to send some stock to a US warehouse to reduce the shipping cost.
I got that GTI trracker from Skywatcher and as usual I was let down another night by it's shitty performance. Anybody know why, after selecting 2 bright stars to align on, it tells me to manually align my first star. I didn't pay $640 to have to still manually align stars.
i always wanted to ask while u was out during night its possible to encounter any wild animal m sure u must be prepared for that too what gear u carry to tackel wild animal do u carry gun,knife or paper spray etc 😂
I find light pollution my #1 problem. Places I went to three years ago now have more light pollution. You used to have a filter for light pollution. I don't see it any more. What are you doing currently?
Yes this is such a shame. Unofrtunately I cut business ties with Kase so I'm no longer affiliated with any filters but the light pollution filters on the market tend to only help with yellow sodium light pollution but most places have now switched to white LED lights which are more polluting and cannot be filtered
😂 my biggest issue is having kids. If you want to be able to go out and not leave your partner home with the kids and feel bad, just don't have any. Alternatively get a van and gp with the whole family. But that's more expensive in all regards. 😅
Rest in peace, Alyn! 😭🕯️
Rest in peace and among the stars 😢 ⭐️
I'm still looking for a vlog that tells us how to create cloudless nights...
Move to Chile :) haha
You could be looking for a long time maybe astronomically so
Move to the Moon!!
@@garyhilles5418 Sky replacement in Photoshop is waaaay cheaper.
Start in Wales
Great video with awesome tips! Thanks so much also for the shoutout! Made my day 😃.
Very well deserved too. ✊
Thank you Alyn. As ever, Alyn is generous, understanding and giving. Don't hesitate to acquire a copy of his book. Like the night sky and like the author of the book, it is an immensity and an infinite resource.
Cheers for sharing my channel mate! Much appreciated 🙏
Great advice hope everyone starting out can create beautiful images ❤
Thanks for the resources Alyn. I’ve followed and enjoyed your content for quite a while. Your “Photographing the Night Sky” is a great resource and I referenced it last night. Your passion for astrophotography is inspiring as is your willingness to help the rest of us.
Thanks for another information packed video Alyn, really apprreciate guys like you that help us amateurs create landscape astrophotography photos.
My biggest struggle is color accuracy in editing. I am colorblind, so I'm always looking for tips and tricks on editing workflows that focus more on settings, vs visual impressions.
I've found a video that is really helpful on this from American landscape photographer Mark Denney. He has incredible content and a very humble and instructive approach. But I'm always looking for more information that will help me with faithful editing.
I'm literally with Mark right now in Menorca for the PhotoPills camp haha But yes colour theory is difficult enough for people who are not colour blind. It's the one thing that I still work on to this day and even still, it just takes time for your eyes to mature and "see" colour correctly, especially in astro.
I have the same issues with editing due to color vision deficiency. Haven’t found anything very helpful yet.
Have you tried color grading in software like Davinci Resolve? It's meant for video but it has incredibly robust color grading tools including scopes, histograms, vector graphs, curves, luma vs sat adjustments n all sorts of things that might be able to give you an idea of color accuracy and manipulation in a technical way.... idk might be worth looking into.
The free version of the software has 100% of the features you'd need.
A fountain of knowledge... Thanks for the heads up on Microsoft ICE👌. The thing I mostly struggle with is implementing everything Ive learned these past few years whilst out in the field, Its like scatterbrain at times and i forget simple things like putting my lense warmer on or kicking my tripod or not locking things down so i have to start over again 😂 Cheers for another Usefull video practice makes perfect 🤞
Awesome video Alyn. Lots of great ideas and resources to study up on. I appreciate the mention mate.
I don't think any discussion about night shooting and composition would be compete without mentioning Nightscapeimages, I've learned much from your videos.
Very good advice Alyn, thank you. I look forward to your video on colour in astrophotography. Choosing the "correct" white balance, saturation and clarity (in different parts of the image) is an area I struggle with.
Another great Video, I really like where you are going with your RUclips sight. Very thoughtful and original.
I will definitely check out these other photographers you mentioned.
Thanks for all the resources you provide 🙏
This has been an ongoing subject since I can remember.
I don't personally buy new gear anymore as I have what I need, and if that is not enough, then I should give up photography altogether.
I see it all the time, all the best, most expensive gear and no idea 😂.
Photography companies do very well off the back off amateur photographers who seem to think buying more gear makes them a better photographer.
The key as you rightly say, is practice and learn about the gear you already own. If it is limiting, then upgrade, but know why you need to upgrade not because you think it will improve your photography, Hansel Adams had very limited gear, but he managed to create master pieces.
There is so much info out there that for a person starting out photography, it can be a mine field of spending unwisely.
Thank you for this video. I will come back to it for sure. I'd like to learn why the landscape sometimes turns out looking dull and colorless.
Excellent Alyn. I'm a portrait photographer who occasionally branches out into other genres and, strangely, I often find aspects of your stuff applicable to portraits.
Tons of so useful information Alyn Thank you so much
This is really helpful for geeting better astro shots out of smartphones
Color theory in landscape astro, is very difficult to find good info on. Ordinary Color balance and theory is everywhere but not for Astro. I am so so so excited to see the video once you create it. Hopefully it’s in depth so, us out there who could use good help with this, are very satisfied with it.
Great video today, and I look forward to next months witns….
I still need to watch this months, cause I’d like to get out, now that the ice weather is FINALLY Here!
Thank you dude!
Wow, thanks for all of the resources. I am familiar with most of them, but there were a couple that I am looking forward to exploring and revisiting. Your recommendation to get out an shoot is the only way to learn and improve your astrophotography skills. Thanks for such a great resource video.
My biggest struggle’s probably a common one: motivating myself to get out and take photos given that I live in an area with a fair amount of light pollution and rarely have ‘free evenings’ and ‘cloudless evenings’ coincide. Clearer skies can be found further away, but it’s hard to be inspired when I probably don’t have time to drive very far from the city lights
You could buy a light pollution filter, they work very well for me in my City of Norwich.
I've had some great images from my back garden of nebula and other space stuff. It can be done with filters although a tad expensive, filters for the Canon eosr which goes between the lens and sensor cost around £180 and the same for the canon m6 mkii.
A video on color theory would be a great video to see!
Wow awesome! So much valuable knowledge esp. on colour theory! I always struggle with that one the most. Thankw Alyn! And thanks for mentioning all the other channels! 👍
Oh, geeze... I'm packing for the Nightscaper Conference and just realized I need to pack your book! Thanks for all the tips in your video, too.
Excellent video as always. I have been following you for a while. It was a pleasure to meet you at PhotoPills. I appreciate your help with my moiré issue. I’m heading home now and look forward to seeing if I can fix the issue in my photos. Also, color theory keeps popping up. I will definitely dive into this subject. I have always been curious about it. Thank you for your information.
Thanks for reaching into the elements of Fine Art. Astrophotographers can use some exposure to color theory and composition. As always, the problem (or quality, depending on how you look at it) is all of the elements are somewhat subjective. But that doesn’t mean everyone can’t use some basic knowledge. Classical art can surely teach us. Thanks again for diving in there.
fantastic wealth of info and ways to get more! Thanks for doing this video. It isn't a flashy video and doesn't highlight your skills/photography as much, but it is super helpful to us!
Such an informative video Alyn!
Excellent content! Your book AND your LR Presets have helped me out immensely! My biggest struggle is focusing at night…but your video on that topic gave me great tips to help! THANK YOU!
Great video and good tips ❤
Great Video Alyn!! It's so true, That Better gear doesn't make you a Better Photographer. But Trying Different Things with your camera does!! Loved the video!
Thanks for the new video, for your advices (go out and shoot! 😄) and for sharing your recommended resouces (very useful!). I'm struggling with editing. I am at a stage (rookie) when 1) I'd like to get just out of the camera an image that closely reflects what I saw when I did the shot. 2) I don't like much to edit. It's frustrating, because 1) is rarely fulfilled, let alone in nightscapes. I guess I have to admit (the sooner the better) that 1) is plainly impossible and to overcome my "fear" to editig.
Thank you for another great video! I definitely struggle with under vs. over editing. Looking forward to that color theory vid! 😊
Thanks for another great video Alyn! I particularly appreciate the insightful recommendations for where to go to learn more in the areas of composition and color theory. Thanks!
Thank you, Alyn for another great vlog.
Great video, got some reading to do!
I would LOVE to see a good video on color theory for astrophotography!
Love the vids Alyn, You've keeped me entertained and have taught me new skills for my new astro adventures. Keep up the good work 👍
"Go out there and shoot" - this should be a sticky note on every astrophotography related channel 👍😀
Been following Dave Morrow for years Alyn and find his website and his tutorials to be an excellent source of information. I like the way he approaches his photography using his background in aero engineering as a framework
Wonderful 13-minute tutorial. Looking forward to your discussion about color theory.
Thanks for all the useful hints and tips. I struggle to find compositions that will work well at night with any given sky. I think more daytime scouting will help, but busy family life means my only free time is at night!
Fantastic vid Alyn with great tips. I'd certainly love to see a video from you about colour science too 😊
I'll share this video on fstoppers 😊
#1 is so key. I remember a musician once saying, “It doesn’t matter what kind of studio you have if you’re in there working." Incredible songs have been recorded with the most basic gear. All the effects and top of the line tech can often just confuse you and take out the creativity. Plus, once you get all you can out of your gear and know how to use it well, you'll know exactly what gear you need next and why, and that will up your level automatically as soon as you do upgrade.
And for another quote, one can't put it much better than this National Geographic maxim: "F/8 and be there."
Outstanding video! Appreciate the links to color theory.
Thank you for all the useful information, Alyn.
great video. super helpful. thanks.
Excellent, as always.
Well done on your video and also giving a free shout out to all those other astro photographers 📸
Dude, amazing video! It doesn't matter what level one is. This video stills a good approach. It's like a life looping process to go through those topics again and again. 👏
Great recommendations on the literature and material out there Alyn 😁
Have a great trip to PhotoPils camp!
So I've got chronic back pain 😢 but still love photography, I've got samsumg galaxy tripod, along with ny big rig. But looking at still doing it
Thank you so much bro ❤
Great content 🙌🏼 thanks for sharing
Thanks Alyn, a different video from you full of great educational information and resources for the nightscaper. I have recently started imaging with an astro modified Sony a74 and am struggling to get the colour balance sorted. It would be interesting to see your opinion of how to successfully process astro modified images. As an Australian nightscaper, I have shot with John Rutter and Richard Tatti of Nightscape Images. Both of these fellows are so good at what they do, I highly recommend both. 👌
Hi Alyn, I am going on a trip soon and I want to take the picture of the milky way, but with full moon in the sky. I will be ever grateful if you could share some tips/camera settings to capture milky way along with full moon, please.
Would be interesting to know your Sony settings for Astro, Sony can be pretty confusing
Thanks for helpful video. Recommend Micheal Shaunblum for a mix of landscape and Astro. I’d be interested in a steep by step guide of apps like photopills, and a review of star trackers and how to actually set one up and use it.
Great stuff, asusual
Image Composite Editor is good especially for new photographers. There are better professional options, but I can't think of anything else that has allowed complete newbie family and friends make great panoramas over the last decade.
I'm trying to figure out how to do a multi level panorama at night. How do you set it up since it's dark out there
Cool video.
nice video Alyn, composition is definitely a big one. Its almost like milky way, aurora or lightening is a get out of jail free card for poor compositions!
Buying new gear will make you better if you are ready. The only time it makes sense to buy a new gear is if the only thing is holding you back in terms of taking your images to the next level is the limitations of the gear you own.
There is nothing more satisfying, then getting a new piece of equipment when you absolutely exhausted what your current equipment is capable and immediately your images go to the next level.
On the flipside, there’s no bigger waste of money, and making a purchase too early and seen either know or very marginal improvements, because there are still so many other issues with your technique, processing, or many of the other fundamentals
As someone who has just upgraded from an APC camera after 5 years of night shooting to a Full Frame camera, I couldn't agree more. You have to master shooting, composition and processing with your existing gear and then move on to better gear. I found that working though the limitations of an older, small sensor camera really helped with the processing side of things.
What star tracker would you recommend for a beginner who is tec savy, but wants something not too heavy that I can trek out to locations with. I was looking though your videos and found one from 3 years ago, but are there any new ones that are better. thanks
Move Shoot Move or iOptron Sky Tracker are good lightweight options. Move Shoot Move will also be releasing a new tracker called the Nomad soon too. Smaller lighter and stronger than the original
Recently had an astro mod on Canon 6d, can you suggest a way of doing white balance for milky way etc. Lots of pink at the moment. Tia
I have a Canon 6D astro modded. I edit Milky Way shots in Lightroom and Photoshop. If you have this software I find the easiest way is to use the colour picker (white balance setting) on a neutral area of sky. Or you could ramp up vibrancy and saturation sliders to 100% and play with white balance to 'guess' a decent tonal range before resetting sliders back to zero to see if your 'guess' was correct? Either way the pinkish cast should disappear but reddish nebulae your astro mod was done for will still be present!
Thanks for the heads up, don't use light room or photoshop. Any suggestions for in camera white balance? I've just set it up in direct sunlight with grey card etc. Going to try it out tmrw night
@@djceire custom white balance is fine for daytime photography (in bright light) but I believe for night time just leave it set to AWB or Sunny setting. You should be shooting in RAW format so your white balance can be adjusted anyway in processing to match the scene.
Dude, put your book in Amazon US market please. You just send to a shipping center and Amazon ships it out for you. I went to buy your book but couldnt. The US markwt is crazy good. Id give it a "shot"!😅
I'm in no rush to sell on Amazon I'm afraid, the price reduction and fees mean I would only make £2-3 per book. We ship to the US and it takes less than a week usually. When the second print run happens we're hoping to send some stock to a US warehouse to reduce the shipping cost.
I'm in no rush to sell on Amazon I'm afraid, the price reduction and fees mean I would only make £2-3 per book. We ship to the US and it takes less than a week usually. When the second print run happens we're hoping to send some stock to a US warehouse to reduce the shipping cost.
I got that GTI trracker from Skywatcher and as usual I was let down another night by it's shitty performance. Anybody know why, after selecting 2 bright stars to align on, it tells me to manually align my first star. I didn't pay $640 to have to still manually align stars.
i always wanted to ask while u was out during night its possible to encounter any wild animal m sure u must be prepared for that too what gear u carry to tackel wild animal do u carry gun,knife or paper spray etc 😂
This one goes into the Reference file
Adobe denoise always crashes on me for some reason. I tried disabling the gpu and stuff and it's hit and miss
How much is your book in USD?
I find light pollution my #1 problem. Places I went to three years ago now have more light pollution. You used to have a filter for light pollution. I don't see it any more. What are you doing currently?
Yes this is such a shame. Unofrtunately I cut business ties with Kase so I'm no longer affiliated with any filters but the light pollution filters on the market tend to only help with yellow sodium light pollution but most places have now switched to white LED lights which are more polluting and cannot be filtered
0:38 🤣
😂 my biggest issue is having kids. If you want to be able to go out and not leave your partner home with the kids and feel bad, just don't have any. Alternatively get a van and gp with the whole family. But that's more expensive in all regards. 😅
wait how did he die?
Too late, just bought a RedCat 51
Any new hobby should be started with used.... any
Hel y4s
You don't need good gears. Says anyone with good gears.
Milky way composites are NOT Astrophotography (just saying....)
Capturing the Milky Way is certainly astrophotography. Composites are digital art IMO