I recently got a Canon t5i from a friend after I mentioned wanting to try photographing my kids sports, also interested in birds and wildlife as many are. Before looking too much into astrophotography it didn’t cross my mind that I could use my camera and lenses for it, I thought I needed a star tracker or at least a telescope of some kind. I was happy to find out that it’s possible to get some pretty amazing shots with relatively simple gear!

This is incredible to me as my first try, to capture all these stars from my backyard, and I’m excited to improve. Some of the shots on this sub are spectacular and I hope to achieve something close to that someday.

Specs below:

Canon t5i

50mm f1.8

ISO 3200 - f2.2 - 100x4 second exposures

I stacked these in Siril following a guide from ChatGPT to try it out and see what it would produce.

I definitely need to learn more about stacking and post processing these images as it’s much different than normal pictures.…