More Orion

Over the past week I have been trying different setups (cameras and lenses), asking a lot of questions and learning a lot through trial and error. Last night under Bortle 2 skies, I set up my Canon SL-1, crop sensor camera, with the Samyang 135mm, f2 manual focus lens on my star tracker. Using my crop sensor camera gives me a focal length equivalent of 216mm. I initially aligned with the laser and followed up with the polar scope. I took 77 photos of Orion at 25 seconds each. The photos below were composited, 20 frames each, using Sequator and edited using Photoshop. For fun, the last photo consists of one photo showing an airplane flying through the photo. I’m happy with the results, but it does appear that I am still getting minimal star trails.

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I am a retired professional geologist who loves hiking, photography and travelling with my lovely wife Barbara.

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