Astrophotography – The ‘500 Rule’ Chart
How long can your exposure be to prevent star trails? A handy chart for a ton of focal lengths to help you render your stars as points and not trails.
How long can your exposure be to prevent star trails? A handy chart for a ton of focal lengths to help you render your stars as points and not trails.
Star trails are a wonderful way to represent the night sky with your astrophotography but sometimes we also want to capture stars as singular points of light. I’ll show you how to figure out how long your exposure needs to be to, using the 500 rule.