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Alas, Munich is definitively not the best place for stargazing. I would suggest going to the Ammersee.

Some useful tools:

• http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap

It's difficult with no car, but it depends on how dark you want it. I'd recommend this Light Pollution Map and a weather app called Clear Outside. LPM features a colour key where dark blue and black is total darkness and pink is the equivalent to Tokyo. You can then compare this to google maps to see how you can get to each place.

I think your best bet will be Glasgow so you can go just North of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. The further north you go the less light pollution you'll encounter, but the transport network diminishes as you get into more rural parts.

Make sure you remember we're an often wet and windy island, and October nights can be cold too.

AsI said though it depends how dark you want it. If you're from NYC for example (Manhattan is one of the worst cities for light pollution), then you wouldn't have to be completely rural to see some stars. You could also try Kendal in Cumbria (Lake District Oxenholme is the main train station) or Welshpool in Wales, which can be accessed fairly easily from Shrewsbury. In both casss you wouldn't have to go far west to find some dark skies

There's an Android App for seeing how bad light pollution is all over the planet.

It's called LPM and I'm sure there's an app for Apple, but I can't be bothered to deal with that research...

There is this app for light pollution

You can find a place which has least light pollution for better view.

Wanted to see it but not into astrophotography. If it isnt visible through naked eyes, i have bino as well.

It's definitely tough to get it perfect, but so long as you take a test photo at infinity, and adjust from there it should work. It's also possible that the issue is you are exposing for too long? 50mm doesn't give you a lot of wiggle room for landscape astro, so you might be seeing star trails instead of blurriness? Also, is your camera/tripod setup 100% secure from wind and other movement? If you don't have a remote, set a 2 second timer on photos so you don't shake the camera, as that will cause noticeable blur. Also here's a good one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap

Thanks! I actually developed an app (app development is my other job besides photography) to find dark places. You might be interested if you have an android device (ios version coming soon). I mostly do landscape photography myself but I do want to get into astro photography.

You can have a look at a light pollution map online or in a smartphone app.

I quite like light pollution map - dark sky & astronomy tools

Depends what your threshold for 'good' is.

If you insist upon trying to do it in the city, at least make sure you're not standing right under light sources. try to get to as dark a place as possible within the city. Perhaps the centre of a large park...

Utilise your ISO and shutter speed properly. Seriously, read up on how to take non-terrestrial photos, because the tuning is a whole thing...says the guy who took 40+ photos of a giant blur called the moon, until he went home and read up on how to do it properly.

Now, if you have a phone, get https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap and use that to find the next best dark space in your area. It doesn't have to be one of the really, really dark ones. You can actually do a decent moon shot directly adjacent to a bright metro area. I did it a few thousand feet from downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in a park across the river. (The river is almost a mile across.)

I suspect the Milky Way will be harder than the moon, but it should be possible to get a halfway decent shot, I'd think. More fiddly and less perfect, though.

Also, a tonne of the shots you see people posting aren't even solo shots. They take a bunch of shots, then stack them. Look up photo stacking. Also, if you ever see a cityscape, or any sort of landscape shot with the sky above it, 99.9% likely it's a composite of a stacked sky series with a normal photo of the terrain under it, and not a single photo. You start to learn a lot after very little reading on how this stuff is done.

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There's an Android App for seeing how bad light pollution is all over the planet.

It's called LPM and I'm sure there's an app for Apple, but I can't be bothered to deal with that research...

One of the reasons I moved to the western USA is for the dark skies. I live in 3 and am only 15-25 minutes from 1 (Oregon Coast).

I recommend this light pollution map for finding the darkest skies near you. Happy gazing!

Get a good light pollution map app. I use Light Pollution Map. Darksitefinder.com and lightpollutionmap.info are also good sites, although if you're outside of mobile coverage they won't do you much good.

Outside Melbourne I really like the top of Mt. Ida (a bit far away). I also went to a spot in the Dandenongs (I think it was a picnic area outside of Mt. Evelyn) - that's a bit closer. I've heard good things about spots near Coorangamite Lake, but that's also far. The main thing is to find a spot that has reasonably dark skies, and where you won't be swept by headlights from passing cars - challenging since so many areas in Victoria are fenced off so you can't just go into a field.

Remember that early morning after hot dry days is a good time for stargazing (less humidity in the air, and by about 2am the cold air will have caused particulate matter to settle).

Apps like Heavens Above (I find the pro one to be worth it) and Scope Nights (iOS only, I think) are pretty good for stargazing conditions, while Stellarium, SkyEye, StarTracker (more of a toy), Google Sky Map (not my favorite, but free), Sky Guide, and SkySafari are all nice tools for showing you whats what up above.

Check out /r/astrophotography for technical tips. The 500 rule (500 divided by your focal length = maximum exposure time to avoid star trails) is a good one to know.

It's probably the Light Pollution Map. It's called the same on the Apple store, I think.

Light Pollution Map and Aurora Alerts.

Just built one of these tracking mounts and I'm itching to try it out.

On a related note, does anyone know a store that has small, low-speed DC motors and gears? (besides Lee's) Or a high torque clock mechanism?

You want to be atleast 30 minutes away from Winnipeg.

If you ever wanted to do a great night time shoot, I'd suggest Pembina Valley Provincial Park.

Absolutely nothing around and they have lookouts you could go up and have nothing in your way for the view.

It would be a tuff hike at night however. I wouldn't go alone.

On any back road 30m away from Winnipeg should do.

No light pollution.

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

https://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#4/38.99/-98.00

Or an app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap

Or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrustonapps.myauroraforecast (for northern lights)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap

Gibts auch für Android, finde die auch noch was genauer als die eigentliche Webseite.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap

Use this app to Identify Light Pollution and areas with complete darkness nearby you

You can also try light pollution map on Google play if you have an Android device.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap

Was this app - sorry if you're on iOS

Use LPM app to select a location. Light pollution does make a lot of difference.

Found it! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap