I am a new hyperstar user, and new to deep sky imaging. I won't say that anything in this hobby has been easy, but I don't find the hyperstar difficult at all, you can monitor focus relatively easily when starting a sequence on a new object, and the exposures are short enough that the chances of mirror shift aren't that high (confirmed when monitoring HFR in sgp), I'm not saying you'll get the same results with a hyperstar that you will with a high quality refractor shooting narrowband, but the results are more than acceptable for me personally. These are the first light shots that I captured from some fairly dark skies, no filters, stock dslr.