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Sil
focus is your problem, and maybe dss (i get the same problem trying to stack my own, takes some practice to get it working in dss,
once you get the process of taking photos and processing them then its just a matter of where in the sky to point :) its all good. its interesting to plate solve a random shot and find you've captured a cluster, galaxy, nebula in the shot and then learn to reprocess to try to bring them out better
I agree that focus is an issue,even trying live view as I did with the two attached images it's still pretty poor.
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Hi again Chris; the infinity setting is useless for astro shots, almost all lenses go beyond the infinity symbol. In Live View choose a bright star, magnify it10x and a white dot will appear in a box at the bottom right corner of the screen.
Adust the focus until the bright star becomes as small as the
aforementioned white dot.
raymo
I haven't noticed a white dot on the screen, I'll have to check for that. The live view didn't seem to help much but I will keep trying.
Both lenses I have used in the pics below are manual focus.
Both exposed at 8s, 800 ISO, not the same area of sky.
The first one is the 50mm @ f1.8
The second is a 6.5mm @ f3.5
These are both single raw shots converted to jpeg after playing around with them in Raw Therapee
