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by AL-gorge
Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:35 pm
Forum: ASTRO ZOOM
Topic: AZ652 astro photography
Replies: 9
Views: 3979

Re: AZ652 astro photography

FYI general tip: Set your lens to manual focus mode and focus on a bright star manually. The live view feature on many cameras can help magnify into the scene or you can set your lens to approximately the infinity marker. Once done, leave it there. Problem: the screen on the camera is so small that ...
by AL-gorge
Tue Aug 09, 2022 1:08 am
Forum: ASTRO ZOOM
Topic: AZ652 astro photography
Replies: 9
Views: 3979

Re: AZ652 astro photography

P.S. firmware version on camera is 1.04. Does 1.05 update fix the infinity focus?
by AL-gorge
Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:26 pm
Forum: ASTRO ZOOM
Topic: AZ652 astro photography
Replies: 9
Views: 3979

AZ652 astro photography

I have taken some really nice zoom photos of the moon. But I cannot get good photos of stars, meteors or the Milky Way -- the stars are more like fuzzy dots instead of sharp points of light. I'm using manual settings, lens at default minimum length (not zoomed), focused to infinity, on a tripod with...