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I found that if you purchase an EL-CHEAPO (For me anyway) $250 lens that has a infinity setting on it you can get some nice shots without having the blobbed stars. There is also another trick you can try which I used before getting my new lens. Do some day time calibration (especially if there is no moon until later on in the night), select the most distant object you can see with your naked eye, then zoom as close as you can (if you have a zoom lens), then focus it until its as sharp as you can get it in manual, then note the settings and that should give you as close to infinity as possible for night time shooting. Note that if you intend in doing wide field aswell, you will need to note those settings aswell. If you don't mind a small nick filled with white-out on your lens casing, this is a good way or marking them !
Have fun.
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