Using light-pollution maps for planning night shoots

- With their extreme sensitivity to light,…digital cameras are ideal tools…for taking pictures of the night sky.…I don't mean just going out and shooting…pure astrophotography images, but shooting…landscapes with skies in the background.…Whether you're going out for purely astrophoto reasons,…or landscape shooting at night,…there are some things that can get in your way…no matter how good your sensor is in low light.…Fortunately with the World Wide Web,…you don't have to wonder about a lot of things…that astrophotographers used to have to worry about.…With a little bit of research before you go,…you can really improve your chances…of getting a sky that's going to serve you well.…

I've got three websites I want to show you here.…First thing is simply the weather.…I'm looking at ClearDarkSky.com,…an amazing site that allows you to tell it where you're at,…and it's going to give you many days worth of information…on how clear you can expect the sky to be.…And you can see here I've got cloud cover, transparency,…