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Issue with T5i view finder when shooting stars.

Started Aug 1, 2019 | Questions thread
OP patsies62 New Member • Posts: 2
Re: Issue with T5i view finder when shooting stars.

I breifly read some of the comments but I need to clarify one major mistake I made in this post.

1) I am talking about live view not the view finder... Sorry for the stupid silly confusion...

2) As far as the lens settings and what I was shooting at this is the information

Lens: 70-200MM f/4 L
Focal Length : 200MM
ISO: 1600
Shutter speed varied from 30-45 seconds.

I was using a skyguider pro and trying to verify it was tracking well and that I was indeed aligned with Polaris so I tried a few shots at 45 seconds and I increased the ISO to 3200 a shot a few shots at a shutter of 5-10 seconds. I finally shot a shot of 45 seconds at ISO 3200 and I got my the live view to stop working. The screen went totally dark.

This is a link to the first batch of photos I took of the stars when the live view was working.  I am very new to astrophotograhpy and I was really just trying to work on getting my stars sharp.  The stars are still out of focus but with the live view working and me being able to see the stars I had a much easier time focusing and they look a lot better rather than me just guessing the focus point and taking shots..  My only concern is I might have over heated the sensor when I took the image of ISO 3200 at 45 seconds.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aoob9MJCvGwzW-HJ-nWBaLCCvc7-QpvH?usp=sharing
Thank for all the replies so far.

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