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Grabbed a few shots and stacked.   XT3, 100-400 with 1.4 tc

Thanks for the kind words. Love these kidos-- Paul

I am thinking of picking up a tracker.   I have a number of older lenses - I wonder if anyone has tried one of them. Nikon 85 F2 AIS Canon 135 2.5 FD Hexanon 135 3.2 Minolta Rokkor 90/4 Thanks

We got the grandkids last weekend and I got to shoot a bit.   XT3, 16-80 Kit lens, AD200 in 37" octo and TT685 on background.

Been to London several times with just the x100f - the trips were work trips so small was helpful.    Would not hesitate to do it again.

Just got off the phone with a very experienced astro guy:   his feedback was that I was asking a lot of a $500 tracker to try and stay accurate at equiv 840mm.    That plus using a teleconverter ...

Thanks for the input

-thanks for the tips!!!! (1) Paul

I used the mask to focus - got the 6 spikes in the middle of the stars, removed the mask, then set the camera to fire 50 frames with 2 seconds between shots. I used the OSC preprocessing script, ...

restocked and reprocessed.   still not optimal.

good call - I hadn't even consider this - maybe I should try another stacking program - I used SIRIL

So my first attempt on a tracker trying to get a shot of the Orion Nebula failed - see below. Fuji XT3 (crop) on tracker, 100-400 with 1.4 TC, 13 seconds @ ISO 200 @ F8. I missed focus a bit and ...

Yep. The cruise to cabo goes from la to catalina to cabo :) -- Paul

Took the X100V as my main camera on the cruise.   Also took an XE4 with the 55-200 for a whale watching trip which was fun but not really a photographic excursion.

The pictures are cropped and shot on a monopod.   I did have a slight problem during part of the day with the foot not being completely tight - so I think I may have had a bit of excess movement. ...

went back and found others with better sharpness - i will chalk up to bad technique that can be improved ;)

Very nice.  Thanks for sharing