Polar align your star tracker DSLR mount
Jan 20, 2022
3 minutes
Practical astronomy projects for every level of expertise
Take any photo of the night sky with a DSLR camera and after a certain length of exposure, the stars will start to trail due to the apparent movement of the stars (in reality, Earth’s rotation).
Not so long ago, you needed a large equatorial mount and some familiarity with the 'dark art’ of image processing to track the movement of the stars. Today, though, there are many small, lightweight, star-tracking mounts that allow us to attach
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