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<blockquote data-quote="Jacknet" data-source="post: 387991" data-attributes="member: 34142">J-see - You are off to the same start I'm having. Don't be too discouraged at all. Are you learning? Astrophotography has a huge learning curve so just hang in there and keep trying different exposures. On the last one with the 200mm crank your iso way down to 400 then 800 and on up until you get the results you want. I'd also increase my f-stop slowly and watch what happens there. I used to think I had to let all the light I could in there but as I increased my f-stop I notice I could still absorb light and get sharper images. Of course I had to adjust shutter too. Another thing is shoot known objects like the Pleides or Orion. Put that 200 on Orions dagger and try and absorb that nebula. And I'm sure you realize that without a tracker you're not going to get pics like the pros. Have you tried DeepSkyStacker yet. You take a dozen or so images and then stack and get some pretty marvelous results also. Read the wiki on DSS's website; there's a lot of good info not only about post-processing but about how to take exposures too. Good Luck and keep sharing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jacknet, post: 387991, member: 34142"] J-see - You are off to the same start I'm having. Don't be too discouraged at all. Are you learning? Astrophotography has a huge learning curve so just hang in there and keep trying different exposures. On the last one with the 200mm crank your iso way down to 400 then 800 and on up until you get the results you want. I'd also increase my f-stop slowly and watch what happens there. I used to think I had to let all the light I could in there but as I increased my f-stop I notice I could still absorb light and get sharper images. Of course I had to adjust shutter too. Another thing is shoot known objects like the Pleides or Orion. Put that 200 on Orions dagger and try and absorb that nebula. And I'm sure you realize that without a tracker you're not going to get pics like the pros. Have you tried DeepSkyStacker yet. You take a dozen or so images and then stack and get some pretty marvelous results also. Read the wiki on DSS's website; there's a lot of good info not only about post-processing but about how to take exposures too. Good Luck and keep sharing. [/QUOTE]

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