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There are no lights on the moon, and none in you photo. I see to 'bright' spots, but they could be hot pixels, other anomaly. Nothing that made me go 'holycrap, there are lights on the moon!' Sorry

I would say you need to be 'pretty close' I use the Star Adventurer with a 300mm lens and 1.4x teleconverter. I get good results on 120 sec subs. Level the tripod put polaris on the circle in the ...

I am going to approach this from the one thing you said: 'not a single image contains additional faint detail' There is your problem.... There IS detail in that single image, absolutely IS. You and ...

I hear you on sky conditions. I am in Alberta, and skies were cloudy or smokey. Hoping to get some wide data on Orion as well, so far clouds are still doing me in. Of course it is pretty clear when ...

-25C be damned, if it clears I may have to head out for one more try. I have to star hop to find it, hoping to see some hints, say relative to jupiter. Cheers

Fantastic capture!!

Yea I am the same. My best chance was when it was still east. Fairly dark but I just couldn't find it. I would love to know it's position relative to jupiter. Super cold right now but I would brave ...

Cannot be the moon, moonrise on that day was hours later, plus it was a waxing crescent that day. Sun and moon can be up at the same time but not like that. You say you saw it and then took a ...

Definitely not a comet, in my opinion. #1 comets don't just show up and leave in a flash. There would be many sightings and photos. It is extremely bright for a day time sighting. Meteors can be ...

Comparison to Neowise only holds many weeks after. Neowise was a very naked eye visible comet. Leonard was never really naked eye. Still it was cool to see and I got a few poor photos. Weather just ...

If it is cheap I would just get it and try it. Half the fun of this hobby is figuring out stuff. Also what lenses do you already have for the sony? I am a big fan of trying out what i already have. ...

If the tracker IS well Polar Aligned, then I would look very carefully at the balancing. I found that balance was as equally important as the alignment. I found with my Canon 7D Mkii and 300mm f4 ...

As mentioned no need to stop down to f8. Only stop down a touch if the lens isn't sharp wide open. Usually if you are cropping the lack of sharpness, usually at the edges, is cropped out. At f5.6 ...

Very nice. A million times nicer than my first. You are off to a very good start. Cheers

Welcome Aboard!! Ask questions, post results, have fun! Cheers

I would want to see other images to compare. Is is ALWAYS on the left side? It does look like star trailing. How was this shot, was it using a mount? I have made a few images where my polar ...

That is really not bad on jupiter. I might have to try this. I just bought a 2x TC, I can stack with my 1.4 on my 300 f4, shooting on Canon APS-C I have a Celestron C-8 and recently bought the ZWO ...

What Scope or Lens? Just curious. I finally got my adaptors for my EvoStar 72 which is also 420. I also shoot APS-C, so I hope to get similar results Cheers

Nice image. This one of my targets this season Cheers

The orientation imaging is definitely when and where the capture happens. After that is is personal preference. I treat M31 like a bowl of something, so I don't want to spill...... I can't even ...