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As Steve said, you will enjoy it But..dont have unreal expectatons Dont imagine that you will be able to do hubble quality images. You can get decent images of like orion pleiades etc...maybe if you add guiding you can get some really really high quality images

Well, not the best for AP I would recommend canon, as I used the 6D, 600D and 450D 6D expensive uh 600D nothing to say, paradise for AP 450D cheap, easy to to the astro mod, live view

As Dave I use a ball head too, more stable and easier to move, also if you got an guide cam with scope you can get another ball head, attach the ball head with the guiding setup on the lower part of the brackett and the dslr on the upper with the lens Good luck

Yes just slide it into

The wedge is the bridge betwen the mount and tripod and it can really help you with the polar alignment, however if you own a Polemaster you dont need the wedge!

Welcome to the forum @smr! I can help you with the Star Adventurer as an experienced user of it! Feel free to send me a message with any question! Some images done with the Star Adventurer+600D+200mm lenses (135-200 i used)

I guide it, thats the key

DSS and Photoshop 6 and camera raw

Not sand, only dust sorry

Believe me, I knocked that thing out of pa hundred times........so boring Than I fixed my tripod to the ground (woth bricks lol) and very gently moving the clutches It depends, am I picking the nebulosity stars etc or the dust and sand lanes? I usually use iso 200 for target and iso 800 for sand and 8min exppsures for target, 10min exppsures for dust I will keep answering, I enjoy it

I use the phone app for the star adventurer mini, its work perfect Yes, guiding can correct a BIT but you need good polar alignmet becouse its guide only in RA axis, so if I missdone the alignment even wirh guiding I still get trails sometime Polar alignment is the key for me, I find it very easy to do but some imagers think about hell when you mentione the PA foe them

I use the built in polar scope, thats all

Its not a bad image Maybe the focus is out a bit, and try to edit it to pull off the sand and dust betwen the stars

Well I had the chance to test out 400mm on the SA unguided, max exposure was 45sec, 50sec, 55sec with trails So I would say 50sec 400mm is max what you can get

I put blood and time in thoose images This 7 images represent more than 150-160 hours of imaging,sitting in -10°C to check all the photons on the images, stacking them, editing,but firstly-no GoTo system so the hardest part is to find the target (okay maybe not for orion or Rho)but Spaghetti and Ghost nebula

@Bobby1970 this is my rig except the camera, now I use a 600D modded not the 5D Pretty simple but works perfect

Yes, I guide it with a small scope and guiding camera mounted on the counterweight bar and actually thats the counterweight for my rig 600D+200mm lenses on the mount Guide cam+guide scope on the counter for that

Here you go Steve I use a modded canon eos 600D or thr t3i Lenses are always the same, 200mm f2.8 set at 200mm and f2.8-5 All the images have more than 70-150 stacked images Exposure time varry a bit from 8min for star colour and nebulosity and 10min for picking up the dust lanes

I get good results too with the Star Advenutrer and a 600D Always I keep the exposure for all objects 8-10 min each sub

I like this image Can you tell me why only 5sec exposures? With 135mm you can go up to 3min

Well My experiece says that you can go up to max 400mm unguided to 30-40 secs exposures with pinpoint stars, above that you will get trails

Yup, I do

I'm glad to hear that you like it! Iso: 200 Exposure time: 8-10 minutes each Number of images: 60 Aperture: set at f3.5

This is a shoot from few nights during last weekend Star adventurer with a modded 600D and 200mm lenses