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That one comment about my nebula photos made me ditch the tripod
I was posting my M42 shots in here a few months back and someone said 'your stars look like little commas instead of dots.' At first I was annoyed but then I looked closer and yeah, the tracking was off. I spent like 3 weeks trying to fix my mount and kept getting worse. Finally a guy in this group said 'just try stacking shorter exposures on a fixed tripod and see what happens.' I did that with 2 second exposures instead of 30 second ones and the stars are actually round now. Still can't get the same detail but at least my photos don't look like they're from a funhouse mirror. Anyone else switch from tracking to untracked and get better results?
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jade_hunt483d agoMost Upvoted
Read an article that said tripods are underrated for deep sky stuff.
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caseyfox2d ago
Depends on the tripod, right? A cheap wobbly one will do more harm than good, @jade_hunt48, but a solid heavy one for a tracked mount is pretty standard stuff. Not sure it's some big revelation.
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