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Old 17-01-2022, 03:32 PM
AdamJL
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Portable Star Trackers

Hi all

I've been into deep sky astro for about 15 months now, but I'd like to start including some more widefield nightscape work into my routine.

Before I bought all my current equipment, I had an Astrotrac (first version, not the current one) which served me well, but my dad's taken that now and I'm without a star tracker.

I've been looking at some options and just keen to hear opinions and thoughts of people who own ANY sort of tracker that they use for landscape/nightscape work. I won't be pointing the camera at the stars on their own with this but will be doing more Milky Way type shots with landscape inclusions, such as this one here that I posted in another thread

https://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/...e.php?a=273245

Open to all ideas from the big guns (SkyWatcher, iOptron etc) to even egg timers that people have used.

I'd like to get longer than 30 second exposures per frame to maximise SNR.

Images will be on a variety of lenses, but on a Canon R6 body.

Thanks!
Adam
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