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The comet does not change but its position in the sky does btw. Longer exposure times turn points into streaks if the object is not tracked to compensate for th
by _Microft 6y ago
The comet does not change but its position in the sky does btw. Longer exposure times turn points into streaks if the object is not tracked to compensate for this.
- Sharlin 6y agoYes, I assumed tracking as it's basically a mandatory requirement when you do telephoto astrophotography, and definitely used in the OP photo. The alternative is to shoot wider angle and align the images during stacking, but either way you have to get your subject's pixels aligned or the result is just blur.
- godelzilla 6y agoThe real question is why anybody would do a time-lapse photo of the sky without spending thousands of dollars on telescope, tracking, and corrective software. Do people really expect ELon to stop making billions for their photos? Fix the pictures, not the sky!
- CydeWeys 6y agoThis is true of every single object in the night sky, and is why an equatorial tracking mount is table stakes for good astrophotography.