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PhotoPills, available for iOS only, is also an excellent Milky Way shot planner. Mobile versions of Stellarium are available for both iOS and Android and, once installed, do not require access to the cloud.

To best determine where the Milky Way will be set the Milky Way brightness to 5.0 in the Sky and Viewing Options window (F4 brings it up). Stellarium runs on Windows PCs, and also OS 10. The program Stellarium can be used to view the location of the Milky Way. In the winter the galactic core is below the horizon in the northern hemisphere.

The Milky Way photographs better in the summer months of June to September than in the winter.

The foreground was light painted with a flashlight. Here's a shot taken at the White Pocket facing south.

The Milky Way is largely in the southern sky.

You should wait until at least 80 minutes after sunset before shooting the Milky Way, and should end 80 minutes before sunrise.

For example, the White Pocket is over twenty miles west of Page, Arizona but the glow of Page is still evident if you shoot the eastern sky from the White Pocket. Even small cities can ruin a good night sky image. If you live in a city you'll need to travel well outside of it before shooting. Most of the discussion below applies both to shooting star points, and shooting the Milky Way. When you photograph the Milky Way you are shooting a type of image called "star points". The most common photographic subjects in the night sky, other than the Moon, are the Milky Way, and Star trails.