I always thought my telescope was the problem, but it was my camera settings

For two years, I blamed my Celestron 8SE for my blurry photos of the Orion Nebula. Then a guy at the star party in Flagstaff asked to see my camera's live view and pointed out I had the ISO cranked to 12800 the whole time. I dropped it to 1600 and took a single 30-second shot that was clearer than all my old stacked images. How many other simple fixes are we missing because we blame the gear first?

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the_elliot2mo agoTop Commenter

Wait, you had it at 12800 for two whole years? That's honestly kind of amazing it worked at all.

the_oscar2mo agoMost Upvoted

Honestly, it was a miracle. The whole thing was held together by duct tape and hope. I just kept waiting for it to fully die so I had an excuse to upgrade. It finally gave up last month, and honestly, the relief was real. Never doing that again.

the_elliot2mo agoTop Commenter

That's some serious dedication right there.