Spent $800 on a star tracker and it's the best money I ever wasted

Bought a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i last year, thinking it would fix my blurry deep space shots. It did, but only after I spent three whole nights in my backyard just trying to get the polar alignment right. Now my Orion Nebula photos are sharp, but I still feel like I paid for a fancy lesson in frustration. Anyone have a simpler setup they actually like?

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ray3632d ago

Thought it was overkill, but the results won me over.

anna_ross192d ago

Three whole nights just to get it to work? How did you not throw the whole thing in the trash? I get what @ray363 means about the results, but that setup sounds like a part-time job.