Can I watch the stars when I go to Mount Everest?

You can see the starry sky on Mount Everest.

Mount Everest, with an altitude of 8844.43 meters, is the highest peak in the world. Everest Rongbuk Monastery is the closest place to Mount Everest that ordinary people can reach, with an altitude of 5,200 meters. There are tents for climbers and tourists. Because it is closer to the sky, you can see the Milky Way like a waterfall at night at Rongbuk Temple, and the sky is full of stars, as if you can reach it at your fingertips.

Shooting location: Staying at Rongbuk Temple is convenient for watching the starry sky and sunrise. Watching the stars lingering in the sky on Mount Everest, it seems that you can reach it at your fingertips. It is washed in silence without the need for words. April to May every year is a good time to take pictures of the stars in the Everest sky. You can see the Milky Way rising from the sky after midnight. Stars emit different colors of light due to different surface temperatures. When the temperature is high, the stars appear blue; when the temperature is low, the stars appear red.

Transportation: The Mount Everest scenic spot cannot be reached directly from Lhasa. You need to go from Lhasa to Shigatse first, take a vehicle from Shigatse to Tingri, and then find someone to share a car from Tingri to the Mount Everest Rongbuk Monastery.

Tips for shooting starry skies in Tibet:

1. Avoid light pollution

You need to find a place far away from the city to avoid light pollution. In terms of composition, you need to find a suitable foreground. It is best to shoot slightly upward. This can avoid strong light pollution near the horizon and capture more obvious stars at the zenith.

2. It is necessary to avoid sunlight.

Approximately one hour after sunset and one hour before sunset are suitable for shooting, but you must pay attention to avoid sunlight, during the full moon on the 15th day of the lunar calendar. It is basically impossible to take pictures on the first day of every month

On those days it was possible to shoot almost all night. It is best to choose clear, clean, cloudless weather.

3. Choose manual focus in the night sky

Because in the night sky, it is impossible to use the camera’s autofocus to achieve focus. At this time, we should use manual focus and focus Pull the ring to infinity, then

Then dial it back a little bit. As for how much to dial, we have to try to expose it little by little according to the differences of each lens, until the exposed star points appear in a clear dot shape.

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Exposure combination suggestions

It is recommended that the exposure time be controlled within 30 seconds. In the case of long exposure at the wide-angle end, star trails generally will not appear within 30 seconds, which is what people often call star trails. The aperture should be opened to the maximum, because it is necessary to ensure that the amount of light entering is sufficient, so it is generally opened to the maximum. For ISO sensitivity, it is recommended that a general camera should be able to expose stars all over the sky by setting it to about 2000. If the ISO is too high, there will be a lot of noise, which will be very difficult to process in post-processing. If you want to capture the effect of stars turning in circles, you need to take the Polaris within the composition range, because the stars all revolve around the Polaris. If you cannot find the Polaris, you should use a wide angle to shoot towards the north. Shooting the starry sky also requires a high sensitivity above ISO1600, and an aperture of up to F4. The shutter time is usually no shorter than 30 seconds. If you are shooting starry sky and the Milky Way, the shutter time is best not to exceed 1 minute. If you are shooting star trails, the shutter time can be minutes or even hours.