Great video Trevor, and thank you for featuring my shot! 😀 For stacking in landscape Astrophotography I would recommend the free Sequator software! 😀😎

Astrophotography Starter Pack = DSLR + Tripod + AstroBackyard

It would be cool to see a single shot compared to a stacked shot. Thanks for all the information!

I smell a beginner astrophotography series🤔🤔 I would love to see that happen!

I am in the process of starting to "build" an astrophotography rig. I was bitten by the astronomy bug with all of the hype of the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction this winter. Now, I just can't seem to get enough star gazing. My small telescope enabled my fiancee and kids to see the moons of Jupiter and just barely make out the rings of Saturn. I have watched a bunch of your videos and have become inspired to see more of the night sky. I am pricing out a DSLR camera...it's an expensive investment and I just want to make sure that I am getting the "best" camera....the "right" one for me. As an aspiring beginner, since I have not started yet, I am very happy that you have so much content posted. I will be sure to let you know when I finally start.

Thanks for your advice and years of knowledge. I just purchased my first Canon DSLR. I am fortunate where I live in Australia to drive about 30 minutes to get dark skies. The patience required in this hobby will do me good.

Nice video Trevor! Love that you featured your fans images - neat idea! Clear skies, Nico

Just getting into astrophotography, own a 9.25 Evolution telescope and just bought a Canon T7 as well as a Star Adventurer star tracking rig. Haven't used a real camera in 10 years and this video is just what I needed to get me started. Thanks for putting this together and dumbing it down for a novice like me.

Man, I totally needed this video 2 years ago when I started Astrophotography. Great video, Trevor!

A few months ago i had so many desires like owning a luxury apartment, a supercar and stuff but now there's just one thing. Having my own little observatory. 🤗

I'm moving my family to a farm soon and am excited to get into astrophotography! I have been watching your videos a lot lately. Thanks for all of this great info!

You're doing important work; don't ever stop.

Great video as always, Trevor! As a photographer myself for 11 years, 9 of them being serious, I caught a few quick things you forgot to mention: If your camera supports RAW format, ALWAYS go with that. It takes more memory space and takes much longer to be processed by the computer than traditional JPEG (more so a standard computer than a gaming, and is greatly compounded in stacking), but you'll get the best results in the end. That's because there is no processing and compressing by the camera that would result in photo degradation. ISO noise reduction settings, exposure gain (also called exposure compensation, not to be confused with ISO), white balance, picture mode, etc. can be adjusted, ignored or changed by the processing software with better results. Also, in the Canon T6 I had, it had a WiFi adapter so I could control the camera with my phone with the Canon Camera Connect app up to 100 feet away, disregarding the need for a delay timer, and being able to squeeze in more photos in a session. If your camera has that, I'd highly recommend using it. You can even see what the results of the photo look on your phone, which may have either a better or worse screen than your camera, depending what you paid for both. And if you are far enough away, you just might be surprised to see wildlife show up. 🙂 Also, use several processing software on your computer. Each one processes differently, and you may like one end photo over the other.

learning a lot from you, even though i don't know english perfectly, i can extract a lot of information from your video. Thanks and save from Brazil!

I've just started to take pics of the sky like a week back, using an 8 yr old mirror less camera, I have to say I didn't expect to get a single star where I live (dubai, u almost can't see any) but the journey to image stacking and editing colours in gimp has helped me soo damn much, it was actually mind blowing when I realised what I have the potential to capture 😂. Thankyou loads dude ur vids have helped me out so muchh!!

Thanks Trevor, really liked this video. I appreciate the walkthrough as I have just started and frankly, I cant tell my ass from my elbow in terms of what I am doing. But the journey of discovery, how my results are changing with every new piece of knowledge I gained, be it figuring out some different setting for my camera, or how to get better output from the stacker, man, I got to say, its very addicting and gives me the drive to push further and further.

Perfect timing man, in two weeks I am travelling to a portal class 4 moonless night sky, and I wanted to take my first photo ever of the milky way. thanks

I enjoyed this video clear and well presented having a DSLR I am looking forward to getting started this weekend out in the Australian Outback 👍

really nice video Trevor! always had a fascination for astrophotography, however never really had the chance to pursue it to the best of my capabilities! Thanks to this video (and some advice from fellow astrophotographers), I finally feel like I can go out and finally pursue this passion which I had stalled for so long! thanks so much!

Dude! Thanks so much for including my photo! It means a lot, especially cause I've learned sooo much from your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 😊 👍

By far, one of the best video's I have seen for beginners like me for shooting the night sky without having to have a telescope.

Hey Trevor thanks for sharing my picture I'm so happy about this! Once more such a great video, I've started my astrophoto journey along with your tutorials and learned so much, thanks for that!!

Just got into dipping my toes into Astro this summer, and your channel has been extremely helpful. Also living in light polluted Ontario, it was great seeing the amazing shots you get from your backyard. I haven't had many clear nights (I mean, this IS Ontario), but I got my first, half assed pic of the Milky Way and even if it's dim, it was great to see. I used Sequator, Darktable and GIMP (all free) for editing. Been using GIMP for years, so it was my easy go to. Love the channel!

Amazing tutorial! I've been a photographer for as long as I can remember, and I've always wated to do AP, but I was put of with my clueless early efforts! Aftr watching this, I'm going to take my 20mm/f1.4 lens out for a walk one dark night, and see if I can do better ths time around, thanks to you tips!

Ioptron Skyguider Pro and Williams Optics Redcat51 both on their way. Can. Not. Wait. Stepping up from a 70-300mm kit lens on a skytracker pro. Soooo excited. Can't even thank you enough for guiding me into this amazing hobby!

Love your Videos, Trevor, i feel you've overlooked what may be the most important of all tips (forgive me if this sounds like lecturing). FOCUS, how to focus at night is the thorn in the side of any beginner, my fist few images were ruined after a long night of trying because my focus was off and i didn't notice in the field. Now, i find that using autofocus during the day to focus on a very distant object, then, putting the lens in manual focus and, using a bit of electrical tape to hold the focus point, helps greatly.

Thank you 🙏🏻 for sharing the knowledge, I have just entered the Astrophotographers rabbit hole

Thank you so much Trevor, I did my first attempt on 28th July here in the U.K. looking for Comet Neowise without any instructions like your video to help me along. Never mind, when our skies clear again I'll have another go to shoot what is out there. This has so much info needed to know. So a big thank you.

Great video Trevor. I started following your videos about a month ago and your advise is priceless. This video is a great start for me. Keep it up.

Thank you so much for this! You’ve helped me take my first half-decent shots of the night sky. Now all I want to do is get back out there and improve!

Having just retired from the NHS after a difficult year, I have started to act on my interest in astronomy and through the internet am discovering astrophotography. Your channel is being really helpful so thanks for your time in making these great tutorials. I will say too that I find your style very easy to watch and listen to (there were many sites that sent me to sleep before they got to any valuable points) so well done.

Just got my first tracking mount an ioptron skyguider pro

Trevor, your tutorial actually made me smile and gave me hope. Thank you! Next week im getting Canon EOS RP and ill try it with the Tokina 11-16m 2.8 to see what happens.

This is where I am right now... Sony@7III sony 24mm 1.4 gmaster.. loving it ..thank you.

Getting some gear together, going to try to capture that Milky Way this Summer. Thanks for helping the rest of us enjoy astrophotography. Every time I see those images it gets my undivided attention, just fixated on how amazing the night sky looks.

This is a great channel...just what I need for a beginner, full of useful tips and tricks and good advice about starting off small and working up, so easy these days to jump straight in and buy everything and get overwhelmed and then lose interest..lol Keep up the great work as its very inspiring...👍

Thank you so much for sharing your tips for Astrophotography! I am hoping to get into this and improve along the way! Kindest Regards, Ray from Sydney Australia

Great video Trevor. I am a beginner at this, and while I've enjoyed seeing how far you can go with all of the astro technology available today, I would love to see more content aimed at beginning astrophotography. There are so many people out there that would like to try this stuff out without having to commit to a sizeable investment. Also, with Covid being an issue, it is almost impossible to find opportunities to hang out with experienced astrophotographers. Personally, I would love to see a video that goes into getting a good polar alignment without the aid of computerized tracking systems or even a polar scope (such as the rig a have 😁). Perhaps one aimed at easy to understand drift alignment, or useful smartphone apps that can aid in achieving a good polar alignment. Thanks for all the content you have put on here over the years covering a wide range of astrophotography interests and skill levels.

Very informative for the basics with a DSLR

And clear skies to you too, friend. 🙏From London 🐾🐾🌞 😷 🌈🌌🌠

As always, great video Trevor. Even though I'm not a complete "beginner" this video will help to refresh my memory since I don't get out to image often enough. Still using a DSLR and tripod. Hope to get a tracker soon.

Very helpful, learned a lot and it doesn't seem so impossible now. Also thank you for the tips on deepsky stacking software.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that I have the same camera you used in your demonstration. I have been interested in dark sky shooting since I was in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and saw the milky way first hand. An awesome site to behold. I will definitely try your suggestions and I will be watching more. Thank You jlbrody

I am a total amateur. This was very informative. Thank you.

Could you make a video on tips or a how-to for astrophotography with a dslr but with a telescope? Pleaase. I’ve just bought a Celestron astromaster 114 eq and i want to start on astrophotography with it. I love your videos, greetings from Chile!🇨🇱

I'm beginning starting new years! This has got to be the coolest hobby on earth!

I really like that you said you don't forget about the beginners

Thank you! This really helps, I'm a newbie, learning as much as I can before a hike through a dark sky area in Wales UK in June.

Thnx for your video. I’m following you for a while. I’m gonna start this month with basic DSLR with 75 300 lens. Canon rebel t6i. Just to get the feeling as a beginner.

Fantastic video. Thanks so much for taking the time to put it together. I'm just a beginner, videos like this keep me on track.

I just started last month with a move shoot move + D750 + some of my existing lenses. Also gotta add binging this channel for hours!

I got started with astrophotography like 1,5 years ago. Last summer I took a picture of the milky way, just by using a tripod, a 150€ camera and a 18-55 kit lens, it looked amazing to me and really fixed me on astrophotography. So this year I did a holiday job and got myself an eos RP with a 14mm samyang, an Astronomik CLS filter and a Move Shoot Move tracker on black Friday, I'm just waiting for a clear night to try out my new setup right now.

This was fantastic! I literally had no idea the images we see online of beautiful night skies were stacked multiple exposures! I love astronomy and am a photographer. I think I know what path I'll be going down in the near future.

Great video, I'm going to have a go tonight!

Great video and info to help beginners. I started my night photo adventures several years ago and learning you can use your current lens and camera to start out. Just make certain you own a sturdy tripod. You'll find some nights the images look awesome and other nights the sky may contain too much moisture or light; all part of the game. Enjoy your time under the night skies watching the stars and listening to the wildlife wake up and their music. I've listened to loons calling and owls responding, coyotes howling and yipping; fun times!

thank you for showing the real process of astrophotography. I've always been interested in astronomy, and might probably start astrophotography. - from Indonesia -

Wonderful video. I am looking to start Astrophotography, and you are very helpful 😊

I’ve always wondered how they take those kinds pictures now I wanna try

That was a really good informative video. The great thing with photography is that you never stop learning, I've been taking photos (mostly action and wildlife) for the best part of 30 years but virtually never tried turning my camera to the heavens after dark. Just recently though after watching many hours worth of your videos and trying some basic shots with comet Neowise and the Milky Way, I thought it was time to take my first steps into astro photography and more specifically wide field deep sky. At least that's the aim! I've just bought an iOptron Skyguider Pro which I'm looking forward to trying out when the skies clear. Being in the UK though that may be some time...! Thanks for all the great videos, they have helped me a lot and will continue to do so well into the future....

I think this is the best video for beginners like myself, great timing and lots of great information. We would like to see more videos like this and props on you channel and photographs, we are pleased for showing us the universe from the screen of your camera.

Thank you. I will share this with our Facebook group ;)

Very helpful...and yes, it is all starting to come together with your help. Thank you Trevor!

Thumbed up and subbed. Great info! I am pretty much brand new to "real" photography. I just picked up a 5D Mark II with the "nifty fifty" 1.8 and also got myself an IS 70-200 L. I'm really interested in producing some striking astro shots! I'm going to be cruising around your channel and gleaning as much info as I can.

GREAT video!!! thank you soooooo much.

Complete & utter newbie here. Great video, thanks 🤘😷

Excellent walkthrough! Trevor strikes again!

Excellent tutorial my friend thank you.

ive watched this video more than a few times because its so informational. thank you for everything your doing.

Love this video! I’m just getting into astrophotography seriously, and helps a lot! Just gotta see if I can catch a clear new moon night, since Vancouver isn’t exactly known for clear skies 😉

Great tips for people starting out.

Great video 👍

Awesome video thanks. I’ve shot plenty of astro over the years but always single frames for my needs they’re fine. I’m just starting to dust off my gear ready for Milky Way season and I’m thinking I might try a bit of stacking so this was helpful cheers liked and subbed

I’m a complete beginner to this, trying to wrap my head around everything. If you’re taking the 10 shots for example, do you have to adjust the camera position so that you haven’t got 10 images framed in the same place, but the stars have moved? Great video 👍

great teacher, thank you

Great video Trevor. This is just what I was looking for. I have been wanting to do this for ages, I thought I would need special gear, that is until I found this video and I do photograpy so its nice to know I have all the equipment at had to start Many thanks stay safe and a Happy New year to you, I hope 2021 will be a lot better than 2020. Just to let you know I am in Kent here in the UK and I am disabled with walking issues but have crutches to use so I can get about a little bit. Bye for now.

If you are not wanting to forget about the beginners then acknowledge that we beginners haven't got deep pockets ie: we can't all afford photoshop, we stretch our budgets as far as possible to get a start in Astrophotography often making do with used equipment or the cheaper consumer DSLR's and lenses...you already have experienced this frustration of not having an endless budget, please consider helping us newbies along by offering us a tutorial using free alternatives to Photoshop eg: Open source Gimp with the Astrophotography Gimp plugin and other reasonably priced software, I suspect it falls short of Photoshop but I also suspect that it is a good tool until we can afford an upgrade to this awesome hobby.

It is a pity that your videos are not subtitled ... they are excellent and I love the way you do it ... Greetings from Argentina, keep it up and success!

Really Great Explanation

I’ll add: the timer is important but what also important is a delay exposure timer on DLSR. You have the mirror come up and if the shutter immediately opens that induces some vibration. If you can have the mirror open and shortly after the shutter opens it helps too.

This actually helps a ton, especially with images that are very bright. I had a few that I took that are far too bright for me to see any detail, so its good to know that I might be able to get some use out of those.

Hi Trevor. Great video as always. I just don't agree with auto WB. I always prefer to have same WB on each picture, therefore, I set it to daylight.

This was a really great video! Thank you.

Many thanks for the feature in this vlog Trevor, keep the great content pal 👌👌

Wonderful Video 🤩 Great presentation 🎊👏

Thanks for taking the time to do these for us beginners,I'm thinking of enrolling in a photography course as I know nothing about cameras.

While I'm not a beginner anymore, it's always great to brush up on stuff. Good vid Trevor 🖒😃

Great tips! Thanks!

Just now finding your channel. Very informative! I'm heading to Utah this fall for three weeks; and want to learn and try astrophotography. Will watch more of your beginner videos! Thanks!

Thank you! This brought joy to my afternoon!

Thank you Trevor! These are always so helpful :)

Oh this video was almost perfect timing. I just went back to my city from being in a small town with little to none light pollution. I could still take some great pics.

Nice info. Thx 4 sharing 😊

You’re the Tom Brady of astrophotography. You should do a whole beginner tutorial series. I’m hooked buddy.

Great video Trevor..can you also please introduce video on how to create dark, flat, ,bias frames and how they are usefull while stacking images. Thanks in advance.😊

Trevor thanks, you help me out ❤️

That was an awesome video. Thanks.

Hey Trevor, Cheers from Winnipeg! I just wanted to say how much I appreciate what you’re doing here!

Thank you. I can't wait to try these ideas.

Nice job featuring Simons Milky Way/Church photo! He's a local photographer. His wildlife and astro photos are stunning.

that was awesome! thank you 🙏