Iceman: I wasn't very clear. Sorry. I meant I'll manually control the shutter with a remote until I can get the TC-80N3. I think the remote I bought will make it necessary for me to actually hold down the button to keep the shutter open (one one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand...
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Thanks for the explanation about guided/unguided. That makes perfect sense! Even though my mount "tracks", the camera's not being "guided" unless I'm using software that controls the mount, right? Which I have but haven't had a reason to learn to use it... yet.
Tracking is not as accurate as guiding.
Gary: I did piggyback my camera on my mount the first night I had it and did some 30 second exposures (the longest I can do outside of bulb mode) with the 18mm - 55mm lens that came with the camera. I got a very nice 'gray-fuzzy' of M13 (and did a happy dance, just because).
I'll take your advice and work on widefield stuff in the beginning (after I do a couple prime focus things just to give it a go.
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Thank you all so much for the words of wisdom, education, and encouragement.