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      07-17-2011, 12:26 AM   #716
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Originally Posted by Weebl View Post
Do you think 17mm crop lens on a crop body, wide open(2.8) and 800-1600/3200 ISO
will get me the Milky Way?
You'll be close enough with that exposure to base further adjustments on your initial results. If you're up high on a dark night with a clear sky I would think that 17mm/f2.8/30s/ISO1600-3200 should give a good Milky Way rendition. If it's not full dark (i.e. if there's any moon or other source of light in the sky) then this exposure will tend to give an overbright sky back ground and it will be more difficult to see the Milky Way. So either shoot on a new moon night or wait for at least an hour after moonset (or stop an hour before moonrise).

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