Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/22

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Subject: [Leica] Question: Photographing he Milky Way
From: michiel.fokkema at gmail.com (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:11:26 +0200
References: <A5CDFF7A-846E-46EB-9F36-63172CA64EF9@yahoo.co.uk>

It needs to be very dark to see the milky way. And a rural area is not 
dark enough. if it is dark enough you'll see the milky way. No map or 
direction needed for that.


Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema

On 22-6-2011 18:33, Peter Cheyne wrote:
> I live in a rural area, and would like to have a go at photographing 
> the Milky Way with an interesting foreground subject (not decided what 
> yet).  Can anyone suggest a website so I can see when the Milky Way is 
> visible from where I am.  I mean a site where you can input your 
> location.  Failing that is there any cheap or free software that does 
> this for the Mac?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
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In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] Question: Photographing he Milky Way)