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Thank you Mark and David and everyone else - appreciate your thoughts very much … it feels like I am drinking from a fire-hose!😀

Thank you, David. Real world experience counts! I am going to do some experimentation. While my tracker is capable of shooting at least 2-minute subs without much difficulty (I haven’t really tried ...

Thank you for sharing your analysis, Mathieu. Very helpful as I try to grow my knowledge… my goal is to get the best out of what I have… stretch the limits of my existing equipment before I go ...

Sorry to revive an old thread... I have been going through a lot of material to figure out what might be the best sub-exposure length for my camera/location combination. I shoot with a Nikon D750 ...

Thank you for explanation. Very helpful. Quite new to all this, but slowly learning, hopefully! With a ISO-less sensor like in the case of a Nikon, shooting at a lower ISO keeps the read noise down ...

Great discussion! Not to go off-topic on the thread, but I noticed you say you shoot your subs at ISO200. Most people shoot DSOs at higher ISOs. Do you shoot at 200 because Nikons are generally ...

I am a bit of newbie myself… and I have been able to do some imaging with a stock Nikon D750 and an assortment of lenses, including a Samyang f2/135 and a Tamron 18-400mm f3.5-6.3. You can ...

Very nice, Herbert. How many frames did you stack? Did you use something like PIPP, Registax, AutoStakkert! etc. for your processing? Razaq

Accounting for the 17 hours time difference between Melbourne and Dallas, JupiterMoons shows that Europa is hiding behind Jupiter and Callisto is out of the frame on the right hand side. Two hours ...

It is quite possibly one of the Galilean Satellites, Callisto perhaps. I have an app on my phone called JupiterMoons and it shows the position of the 4 famous moons of Jupiter at any given time. ...

I had done something like this when I first got the lens... except that I did it hand-held.  I composed a picture with a particular "thing" so that the "thing" was placed at the center and all the ...

I have never rented a camera or a lens before, but I did come across a website recently called lensrentals.com ... there may be lots of other places too, but I have never looked. Given that you ...

Thank you, that makes sense. Let’s say that the initial polar alignment is done with your method. As a next step, you rotate the declination bracket to the appropriate position on the RA axis to ...

Herbert, someone mentioned in this forum a while ago that there may be a bug that causes the EXIF info to be reported incorrectly for exposure time… it seems that 30sec is reported for any long ...

Jack, that is ingenious. A question, though… if you attach the right angle view finder directly to the snap on cover of the polar scope and then attach the snap on cover to the body of the SWSA, ...

Herbert - how much integration time do these 23 lights represent? I have seen some respectable results with approximately 1.5 - 2 hours of integration time. In addition to the total integration ...

Here is an article that provides some tips on Bahtinov mask usage, but it does not seem to have anything specific around the impact of the width of the bars on the focus or the need for ...

Kazmarov and you are both rightly pointing out to what I should be doing... which is to use the Samyang 135/f2 (that I acquired recently). I have read that while this lens is good, it can have ...

Hmm... this link below takes me to the 4.2.6 version: https://github.com/deepskystacker/DSS/releases/latest

@kazmarov, your rushed example is pretty good! I have been itching to go outside and do more, but its been pretty yucky where I live the last few days...:-) I will use the Samyang next time... I ...