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Originally Posted by Nebulous
Disclaimer: Rank Newbie opinions. Relationship to fact may be tenuous at best.. 
I mainly want to make simple maps of areas of sky that contain a complete constellation - such as Scorpius - that I can crop down and use for a study guide while I learn the positions and patterns of the key stars and any objects of interest.
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In that case you'd do a lot better to read a few astronomy books and study Sky Safari more carefully before rushing outside and banging away at random with a lot of gear pointlessly.
Secondly think carefully about why you are doing this and what you hope to get out of it.
You don't need whopping great DSLRs to record the constellations - see for example
https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/7...06188/p1010566
- the camera and exposure details are provided. No tracking, no tripod, camera was perched on a rock.