u/hainam993

- Find area with at least Bortle 3 or even below!

- I recommend Leica 15mm or even better.... Leica 9mm, or just any fast wide angle lenses, fish eye is okay too, its cooler to include foreground on your milkyway shot, right?

- Rock steady your tripod, turn off IBIS to save more battery.

- Aperture: F1.8 - F2.8 - ISO: 1000-1600 - Shutter speed: 15-20 seconds - Interval time: 1 second.

- Shoot RAW for heavy processing.

- Turn on Long Exposure Noise Reduction (i don't like most tutorials out there, m43 ain't like Full Frame, some older models with 12-16mp sensor, especially Panasonic made ones, which suffer terrible color noise when exposure above 5 seconds, so better turn the feature on or your photo is cooked!).

- Be patience, wait for 3-4 hours, you may get about 120-150 frames, which are enough for smooth 4-5 seconds of 30fps timelapse, its worth!

The timelapse is shot using Lumix G85 + 9mm F1.7 btw.

Thanks!