[DavidT]

Hi, Gosia! Thanks for remembering my Milky Way photo. It was taken during a trip to Death Valley back in March 2019. is the only time I ever photographed the Milky Way, so I hope I can recall the details. First of all, you need a totally dark sky. Death Valley is far away from city lights. It’s almost impossible to photography the Milky Way in our area. Secondly, it was taken around 4:00am on a cloudless night. In March, the Milky Way is relatively low on the horizon, so you are able to photograph the entire Milky Way from end-to-end with a super-wide angle lens using a panorama. In the summer, the Milky Way is almost directly overhead. The Milky Way is not visible during the winter months. I used a 14mm lens with a 2.8 aperture. A tripod is a must. I used a shutter speed of 30 seconds. ISO was set to 5000.

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