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That is the secret sauce. 60 to 100 images will work well. Look up Autostacker or Sequitor (spelling?) Depending on Mac or PC. And try to take a couple with your landscape exposed the way you like so you can layer that on top after the main process. You can ignore star trails for that one. Ps...

That's a comet all right there @Clovishound . Not a bad try at the Milky Way either. I am guessing no exposure stack?

Look at the bottom of the screen of Stellarium mobile. On my Android phone I find a small compass. I believe I touched it and lingered on that touch a bit and it started moving the view as I moved the phone. Touch the sky and scroll, the tracking stops.

Back on original question: I believe Cygnus is top edge-center and NAN is just off frame up. But it is really hard to pick that out. Had to go back and forth between Stellarium and the photos many times looking for the patterns in photo #1. And I just discovered you can point-view Stellarium...

For reference kind of as you ask for. However the software I was using back then tended to strip off the EXIF data. Orion with a 90mm Tamron lens. Belt at the top gives the reference for the Orion Nebula lower down. Bottom right is also another star of the visible constellation. Found...

Orion nebula is the most visible nebula in sky. You would likely mistake it for a star in the "dagger" below Orion's belt. It is easy to over-expose it. In winter Orion is the dominant constellation and most people learn to recognize it like the big dipper. There are certain other constellations...

Maybe consider a less-ambitious target without a tracker. Jupiter and Saturn are actually fairly easy as long as you can keep the planet in the FOV as you work. Orion Nebula also since it is so visible bare-eyed. I just took a trip down memory lane from 2019 which is shortly before buying my...

A massive vignette. Really ought to use a tracker on multi-second exposures at telephoto length. This is most needed at the elliptical plane. I did my comet photos without tracking, and at 70mm anything above 1 second had trails. I also forgot to flip off the VR switch so that added to my problems.

Mirror stuck? Maybe even mirror-up mode (MUP) turned on by accident? That is a mode that requires you to push the shutter button once to raise the mirror, then push a 2nd time to take the photo. It is intended to eliminate shake from the mirror slapping up on a tripod long exposure.

On Z mount everyone is getting the Nikon Z180-600mm. The demand is so high Nikon actually raised the MSRP a couple months ago! I do not remember seeing that on a new lens before.

Missing some information here. Vintage lenses? Adapting non-Nikon F lens maybe? Canon lenses hold the aperture closed unmounted while Nikon holds it open. So before my mind goes wild imagining the possibilities, please share the type and model of that problem 300mm lens.

I believe your camera is behaving as "normal", meaning it is not compensating your display to see the image knowing that a speedlight will be used. Is it a Nikon speedlight or other brand? I don't use Manual mode with a flash, so I have not tried that on my Z5. But if you did not have a flash...

Press the menu button to see if either the viewfinder or touchscreen display that. There is a sensor to detect your face up to the viewfinder, so if that is covered with dirt or debris (or thumb) it will leave the back screen blank. Needa covered the other stuff. If the settings would leave a...

Easily worth a $35 upgrade cost!

@Afterglow967 The red linear dots are exactly what airplanes make with their marker lights as they fly through a multi-second exposure. The 2 white streaks that are prominent should be satellites, likely Starlinks. Meteors when they appear have a more "fuzzy" quality with a fade-in and fade-out...

Without checking on Stellariun first, the FOV all looks about right to me. The physical dimensions of the sensor is what factors into the FOV so 2 full-frame sensors with the same lens create the same FOV. But the higher res sensor will have more detail recorded. From practical experience...

I never saw the comet with my eyes on the 17th, but was able to locate it in the camera viewfinder of my Z5. Very light-polluted scene, but the spot was full of other astrophotographers also. We apparently all shared the same idea. First image is an exposure stack with an extra layer of...

I am using the phone to view Clovis, but Venus is lower on the horizon than the comet. The comet is above and left of the sun as it sets. It is moving further from the sun and dimming each day. But looking at stellarium I believe the comet was way out of your frame up and to the right. Edit: I...

If you see the remote light up, the problem is something else. There is no IR receiver on the back of the camera. Just one on the front as the wireless remote was just supposed to be for taking selfies from a tripod. The wired remote releases are far more useful in my experience and cost about...

I think it comes down to megapixels. Most of the other still photography features are not going to be overly different, but the D3100 is only 14MP versus 24MP with the others. You will notice that sort of difference in the detail, if you hold the camera steady enough. When I moved from 10MP D80...