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Thanks for the reply. I was hoping it was not, because those things are pricey!

By the way, I see that you're just 2 months old on Hive, welcome! There are many photographers here, but you probably already have seen that since you're posting in the Photography Lovers community ^^. I'd love to learn more about astrophotography, but the prices are just a little bit beyond to make it a hobby.

Looking forward to see more of these kind of shots :)

A cheaper and equally good option is a small SW Star Adventurer mount. It's significantly cheaper and I'm great for a camera + lens set. I think the lens is up to 200mm it will manage to expose frames for 30 seconds without moving stars.

I actually found this... what a gem of a find!

I only do not know how to identify the "dark, flat, dark flat, offset-bias" RAW files in the photographs for the DeepSkyStacker software (do you happen to use that as well?).

Would be awesome to find out if this actually works for me.