How To Take Night Sky Photos With Sony A6000

Bump up the ISO to 1600 to get better pictures in low light but dont go above 3200.

How to take night sky photos with sony a6000. It was quickly apparent that the A6000 did provide good JPEGs but the RAW was much better for extended. Night photography really isnt complicated. But the nice part is that when you do finally get the focus right it will usually stay that way the rest of the night.

More on this further down. When photographing stars divide he focal length of the shot youre taking. Our a6000 takes pictures at 60004000 which looks terrific when printed or on your computer screen.

How to photograph stars and make night time lapse with Sony a6300 and kit lens. Open up the cheat cards in Adobe Reader you can download it for free here. Another thing to consider is that in order to take pictures of the night sky you need to use shutter speeds of 10 seconds or slower.

The intention is to capture night-sky imagery whilst in Canada the Aurora and various areas of the night-sky. Simply put camera to MANUAL FOCUS mode focus on the brightest star using focus magnifier or the moon. I have another 55-210mm SH lens for it that I bought for surf shots.

Image of star trails. The Sony Alpha a6000 is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera in the Sony E-mount range of APS-C cameras. Once you get the fundamentals down it then drives you to find more locations and look forward to the time of the month that the moon sets early and the sky.

It can be a little overwhelming at first but once you nail your first shot I can almost guarantee that youll be hooked. Then go to File - Print and a print dialog box will pop up. With the right technique your camera can capture a myriad of light sources above.