Photographs Lombardy
Stars from a light-polluted sky
What a small star tracker can and cannot do, twenty kilometres from Milan.
A sample entry mixing notes and photographs. Something like a field log works well: what you pointed at, how long you exposed, what went wrong.
Settings
- Tracker polar-aligned by eye
- 30 × 60 s subframes
- Stacked and stretched afterwards
The sky was never truly dark. That is most of the story.