vanlifevlog
Senior Member
Will this setup work well with a star tracking system? Any experiences good or bad?
I can attest to the combination of camera and glass, but have no experience with kit.
I'm curious, only because I haven't done any research into the product, but what does something like this give you that you can't get with a compass and a star mapping app, particularly with a wide angle like that? I can see using one with a telephoto to, say, track the moon and do a time lapse during an eclipse. But it seems awful pricey as a pointing system for wide angle night shooting.
The astrotrac is for very long exposures. It compensates for the earth rotating so you can get very clear pictures without trails.
see AstroTrac-Beispielbilder
Which is sort of my point about the wide angle lens. Sure you can get long exposures without star tracks, but I've seen some amazing 20 sec exposures at f4 and 16mm with ISO at 1200-1600, so you should see no movement. Now with something longer then absolutely since you'll get star movement much faster than 20 seconds.