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Originally Posted by Cynicide
This was without tracking and no telescope in a fairly light polluted area. I just have a cheap $40 tripod that I just mounted the camera to. 10 second exposures at f2.0 lens equivalent of a 50mm full frame lens. The full photo contains the ground as well but I cropped it out as an astrophotography subreddit I'm on has rules like not posting things below the Kármán line and I wasn't sure if that was the case here.
I'm keen to do more exposures before stacking but I want to get an intervalometer so I don't have to keep count in my head.
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You're on the money with your 10 second subs using the 500 rule, just shoot a lot more. You can get intervalometers for around $20 on eBay for almost any camera. If you want to leave your foreground in without cropping, you can always post them in the Nightscape section of this forum. If you'd like to increase your exposures, look around to buying a small tracker that will mount on your tripod, this will open up possibilities of introducing longer focal length lenses.
PS. Just realised you are using a 25mm lens, so you could increase your exposure to 20 seconds and still maintain round stars.