I spent a whole night fighting with my camera's autofocus on Jupiter

Diana Black · 2026-03-14T10:40:06.576258+00:00

I was trying to get a clear shot of Jupiter and its moons from my backyard in Tucson, but the autofocus on my DSLR kept hunting and never locked on. I switched to manual focus and spent over 4 hours using a bahtinov mask and live view, which was way harder than any tutorial made it seem. Has anyone else given up on autofocus for planetary imaging and just gone fully manual?

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