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There is a lake and a highway in the farther background. A small city is out of frame to the left. The light pollution is an issue that way. I did use a light-pollution filter in front of the lens, but it was beginning to fog with dew around midnight when I did this. I use Sequator to stack...

I am going to go back to 2017 on a night when I was set up looking for Aurora that did not happen. I noticed I could just make out the Milky Way looking up. So I turned the tripod around and attempted to photograph the Milky Way without actually having done any research into how to do it right...

I spent 3 nights shooting the comet. I could have gone out 5 nights as I was blessed with unusually favorable weather for July. 1st night: D750 + Sigma 150-600mm C lens. Using a Skywatcher AZ-GTi mount to track the comet with 40 second exposures. 2nd night: I started with same setup, but with...

I am Chris, a hobbyist photographer although I have taken money for an event or 2 over the years. I took a photography class in high school way back in 1982. I did not actually acquire my own film SLR for another 15 years when I picked up an entire Minolta XD-11 kit at an auction. I bought a...

I bought a SkyWatcher AZ-GTi last December and updated it with the alternate firmware to work in Equitorial mode. With the additional Sky-Adventurer hardware required to mount a camera and angle it right I've been pleasantly surprised by how well it tracks. I don't push the exposures past 1...

Hello, I'm a newbie here. I did get out on 3 nights over 1 week. The skies were perfect enough that I could have gone out 5 nights. I tried to do different things each night. Mostly I took 30 or so exposures with each composition to give the option of layer-stacking. First night, I was...