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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TonyD315" data-source="post: 510319" data-attributes="member: 19804">I just came across this and thought I'd add in what I have learned about astrophotography. I took a workshop with a guy named Jack Fusco, Google his work, it's amazing. As it was said before there's a lot that goes into astrophotography. The longer the lens the shorter amount of time you have until the stars start to trail. I don't shoot single shot star trails for a number or reasons. I will shoot anywhere from 150-300 shots, depending on how I want the photo to look. Then I'll edit them in Lightroom and use StarStax to compress them into one shot. The settings that I will use are usually 12mm at f4 ISO 1000-1600 with a 26 sec exposure. There is a chart you can find and it will give you exposure times based on your sensor size and focal length. Most Nikons, definitely your 7100, are equipped with a internal intervalometer, so it eliminates the need to use a external release. I set the exposure to 26 sec, with a frequency of every 30 seconds to let the camera cycle, for X amount of shots. Here's an example of a star trail I shot in Cape Cod, Ma back in the spring. <img src="http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/26/bf0f023e16e61dd665eab7a5222bb2c0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</blockquote>