Packing for a trip where I'll be flying and also may get a chance to do some astrophotography
is always a difficult challenge for me because I like having lots of options and backups for
everything so it's hard for me to pare it down and still have room for clothes or anything else that
i might have to bring on a trip or vacation my system though is to bring everything valuable like
cameras lenses trackers and so on in my carry-on luggage and anything else that won't fit or is
easily replaceable like a tripod or clothes or toiletries in my checked bag but in this video i
just want to show you what i keep in my carry-on luggage which is this guy it's the pelican 1510
which is the largest rolling case that pelican makes that will fit in the overhead compartment
as a carry-on bag inside the case i opted for the pelicans trek pack dividers which i believe are
the most expensive option but i love them they're more durable than the pick and pluck foam which i
can't stand for some reason and they also take up less room than the typical padded velcro dividers
that i sometimes use the best thing about them is that you can cut and design them however you want
and they come with these little pins that makes putting them back together into different
configurations really easy exactly what i bring is a little bit different for each trip but
here's what i'm bringing this time on my trip to Wisconsin i have two cameras here
this top one is actually a stand-in for the Canon EOS Ra which i'm filming with right now
i also have a backup camera this is a modified canon t7
underneath the cameras in these compartments i have a case for my sd cards and
a manual air blower which is always handy to have
up here in this top corner i have a bunch of stuff i have a lot of batteries
i have holders for things i have intervalometers all kinds of little accessories lots of backups
of different accessories that might fail down in this little compartment i have
a 3d printed Bahtinov mask i have some electrical tape and i have a little uh
gray card slash color chart that i always just have with me just in case i need it
here are the lenses i'm bringing again this is something that changes every time depending on
what i hope to shoot on the trip but on this trip i have the canon rf 85 that i rented for a week
just for this trip a rokinon 135 and a sigma 40 millimeter below the lenses i have a little petzl
headlamp i've had this for a long time works well and then finally over here last thing i have my
full star adventure including the counterweight and the counterweight shaft and the declination
bracket and everything it all fits fine the last thing so basically i have everything that i need
here except for one thing which is the tripod and as i mentioned at the beginning of the video this
goes into my checked bag because it's too big to fit in here if i really wanted to go light i
could maybe get like one of those travel tripods that could fit in like my second carry-on bag
but i like having the full-size tripod i'm using an ifootage carbon fiber one and so i
just put this into my checked bag and wrap my clothes around it and that works well
and the the again the strategy here of putting all of this in this carry-on bag is this is all stuff
i don't want to replace so i want it securely with me i don't want it to end up lost somehow
um so what am i missing you you can tell me in the comments you know sometimes i bring a laptop but
honestly a lot of times i bring it and then end up not using it because on a vacation or a trip i'm
not going to process my photos until i get home and yeah if i brought a computer of some kind
i could then use an auto guider and all of this other stuff and i could dither and possibly get
better data the thing is though my strategy here is to have backups for all the important things
and have not such a complex setup that there's possible points of failure where i'm not going to
have all the stuff i have at home to fill in and if so if i'm out for a week without any stores i'd
rather have as much stuff in backup as possible and keep it as simple as possible so that's my
strategy with packing for a trip like this one i hope it made sense um this has been a five minute
friday uh next week i'm gonna be in Wisconsin but i'll i'll be back uh for the next five minute
friday hopefully next week till then this has been Nico Carver nebulaphotos.com clear skies