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Originally Posted by Mickoid
Tim, that looks great. You tracked that I am assuming due to the nice round stars and especially when using a 50mm lens on the. 550d, it is slightly telephoto on a cropped sensor. I like the shorter exoosure you chose, simetimes if tbere are too many other stars in the shot they distract and camouflage the subject, in this case Crux. Well done.
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Half tracked

I use a goto dobsonian piggyback setup at the moment while I wait for a second hand heq5 to pop up.
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Originally Posted by Atmos
This is a stack of 30s exposures with no calibration frames at 112mm F/4. Was taken at my dark site so I can certainly understand what light pollution does to destroy a perfectly good image 
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Nice. Although I think I'm better off with less stars at the moment. Being that I'm only a beginner at all this and I'm using pixinsight, which is quite difficult to get my head around... But I am getting there.