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Hi everyone.

This is my first light with a sony A7s. I'm getting organised for a trip to Kerry dark sky reserve in August and while i had my main imaging rig going i thought i would test out my travel rig.

This is captured with a sony A7s mounted on an eq3 pro.

William optics Star 71

Post processing was done in Cs6. Levels stretch, contrast enhancement using Noel Carbonis tools. Gradient exterminator.

I used a little device called Hahnel Captur. It's a wireless intervalometer which you can program and walk away. Worked a treat. SharkMelley user on SGL actually created a great little bit of software for image capture which i have tested and it works very well indeed, but as i had my laptop in use for my main imaging i used the Hahnel.

I need to get a light pollution filter as is obvious in the background, and star colour is off too.

So this is 2hrs in 30 second subs.

Hope you enjoy.

Richard.