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Old 25-February-2008, 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by mugaliens View Post
I wanted to test this myself, so I took my digital camera out, aimed at the night sky, where there are clearly stars, and snapped a couple of pics.

Guess what? No stars.

No biggie.
Just pointing and snapping won't really do it for you. You will need a tripod, and play around with several settings. Here's one I took last summer while at a Cornish campsite at night

I had increased the ISO setting and opened the f stop as wide as possible. Then I played with the shutter speed until I got this. Quite a few stars show up as well as the (overexposed) moon.
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