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Old 16-10-2019, 05:28 PM
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A6000 is a good all round camera. The main advantages of mirrorless over DSLR for astro are the EVF, smallness and lightness and in the case of the A6000 is very cheap.

Nikon D5600 may be fine. I did read about one similar model, it may have been the D5700 that does some funky filtering of RAW images resulting in off star colours. D5600 may be fine but the images I see often that are outstanding are from a modified D5300.

A6000 as you know is an older model and is a little noisy compared to more modern models. But if you stack images, which you need to do anyway, this noise goes away.

For a star tracker you need lightness. I have a Redcat 51 and its an excellent lens/telescope. It might be asking a lot though to get a tracker to mount it. If everything is perfectly aligned and balanced it might.

It would need the counterweight kit that most trackers offer these days.

Greg.
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