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    Aug 13, 2020 5 minutes

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    Catching Comet NEOWISE

    I have always found everything to do with astrophotography to be the ‘here be dragons’ part of amateur astronomy. I always read the articles in the magazine but never seemed to have the time to dive in and figure it out. I did finally learn all the settings on my camera last year for an aurora trip, but my long exposures still suffered from star trails. The review of the wind-up mini-tracker in the magazine a little while ago (the Omegon Mini Track LX2, October 2018 issue) – an ideal piece of equipment for someone like me, without batteries or laptops – encouraged me to get one. Then along came Comet NEOWISE and my initial photos had blurring even with

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