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Magazine > Practical tips > Dittler's photography workshop > A look at the Milky Way
Practical tips

A look at the Milky Way

This target is so large that it's best to use a wide-angle lens. You need to pay attention to these 3 things.

Picture of the summer Milky Way over the Black Forest. The image was taken with a full-frame Canon 6D DSLR with a 14-mm lens at aperture 2.8, ISO 6400 and 20 seconds exposure time. U. Dittler Picture of the summer Milky Way over the Black Forest. The image was taken with a full-frame Canon 6D DSLR with a 14-mm lens at aperture 2.8, ISO 6400 and 20 seconds exposure time. U. Dittler

You can create impressive pictures of the summer Milky Way using simple equipment

Not everyone can or wants to take their telescope and camera on holiday to take advantage of dark skies at their holiday destination for astrophotography – and this is precisely why the summer months are perfect for astrophotography requiring little technical effort and focusing on a rarely observed astronomical object: the Milky Way.

Photographing the Milky Way basically requires just a camera, a wide-angle lens and a tripod. Full-frame DSLR cameras with their larger camera chips are better suited for this than cameras with APS-C sensors, since the aim of Milky Way photography is to shoot as much of the band of the Milky Way as possible, but you can also a good result from an APS-C camera.