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You can put on your 1920's era clothes and participate in a speakeasy-style event this Friday in downtown St. Cloud.

You can put on your 1920's era clothes and participate in a speakeasy-style event this Friday in downtown St. Cloud.

You can put on your 1920's era clothes and participate in a speakeasy-style event this Friday in downtown St. Cloud.

Rob Pettengill, Ph.D., is an engineer, astrophotographer, sidewalk astronomer, and volunteer astronomy educator from Austin, Texas. As a NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador, he gives astronomy and astrophotography talks to schools and clubs. His BadAstroPhotos.com website images and how-to content are free for non-commercial reuse to readers in 168 countries. In social media, his outreach is on Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, Cloudy Nights, and Quora, where he’s a “most read” astrophotography and amateur astronomy author. Rob earned his Ph.D. at Stanford for research in medical microelectronic...

Learning how to setup tracking with a meh telescope and a sturdy mount is in my opinion more fun and more rewarding than just tracing with a DSLR tele lens. Unless you have a system with big enough magnification to start bumping into the real issues with stabilization and tracking, on a DSLR with an APS sensor that will start happening around 300/400 mm focal length and lenses that are good enough to start doing stacking with are more expensive than a meh telescope. Also it's better to start playing with a telescope sooner so that you get used to the particular problems of t...