I know this may sound a bit unusual to remove the stars in your Milky Way photo, but in fact, there are plenty of pro photographers doing that. There are two reasons why we want to reduce the stars. First, too many stars can be quite distractive. Usually, we tend to increase the contrast of the photo to make the Milky Way “pop”, but this also applies the same to the stars. You would want your viewers to focus more on the Milky Way instead of the “bright spots” that scatter ar

Recently, I received a question from one of my students regarding what’s the right colour of the Milky Way. I think it is a good question. It also triggered me to share the answer with you all, and how to get the right colour of the Milky Way. We have seen countless photos of the Milky Way in different colour variation, orange, magenta, blue and even white, but which one is correct? From Astronomy perspective, the colour of the Milky Way should be yellow and orange. Like the