Keep in mind this video can apply to any DSLR or Mirrorless camera, including Sony, Canon, etc. While this video focuses on Fujifilm cameras, it's mostly the specific settings of the camera itself - everything else (concepts, trackers, in-field techniques, image processing) will work with any type of camera!

I clicked on this because it was on my feed because I watch all your videos. I am 73 years old and I have never owned any kind of camera until August 2023. I bought an asi294 camera. Works pretty good.

Best teacher….EVER. 🤘

Love this Ian! I'm a Fuji shooter for my street photography and always wanted to fully transition over to Astrophotography with one of their mirrorless models so this video was super helpful!

Hello Ian! Saw your video on marketing and selling astrology prints and just started my store thanks to you. I’ve been doing astringent for many years but never had the nerve to put my work out there. Thank you for the inspiration and the knowledge to do so. Thank you again. Luis from NY

Great video! I got an X-S10 about a year ago, but only recently tried it for astrophotography (mostly in preparation for the eclipse). It's something I had dabbled in before and I was curious if anyone had specifically made a video about deep space with Fuji... was very pleasantly surprised to find yours which was not only super recent but a perfect all encompassing refresher! It's well edited and you do a wonderful job presenting info, easy sub for me. The previous camera I was using was an old EOS 7D and man, all the modern QoL improvements make a night and day difference in convenience. Having saved custom profiles, built in intervalometer, and a flippy screen makes astro so much easier and it makes me actually want to go and do it more often. Now I just need to save up for a star tracker and telephoto lens lol. Do you have any experience using the Fuji telephoto zooms for astro? Any particular recommendations in that category? Hopefully your channel keeps growing, I was surprised you're under 2k subs given the quality of the video! I remember first subscribing to (and learning how to do astrophotography from) Nico from Nebula Photos several years ago when he was like under 5k too so hopefully yours can become as big if you keep at it. And I'd love to see a video teaching how to do the astro timelapse that you showed, I thought that looked really nice and it'd be cool to see how you accomplish it within the Fuji system.

Wonderful job Ian! And so glad to see others showing off how easy and capable Siril is for processing our astrophotography. Nerdy question (and I might have missed it, so apologies if I did): Can the Fuji cameras combine an internal bulb timer with the internal interval timer? It didn't look like you were using an external intervalometer, and you mentioned shooting 50 sec. subs. I've found many cameras have both, but it's impossible to combine the functions so if I want to use the internal interval timer I'm limited to 30s. subs. Wondering if Fuji doesn't have that limitation.

Always good to have a video that recap the whole process, nice job! I wanted to try using the 50-140 2.8 for astro if he worth it for this peculiar job, but that's a 99% constant cloudy / rainy weather since last October here, I'm sad. Not a single photo for this winter up until now. Yesterday was cool though, we were able to visualize/shoot 12P/Pons-Brooks.

Aww man thank-you for this video!! I've got an XT30, and have been falling down the astrophotography rabbit hole. Im not sure I'm ready to commit to a dedicated astro cam, and watching this video has definitely given me my next path to go down, so to speak. A somewhat technical question... your redcat scope there... iirc, you said the effective focal length was somewhere 250mm ? In your opinion, is it better to use a telescope at that 250mm versus the fuji xf 70-300 w the 1.4x tc attached? So, essentially 630mm full frame equivalent. This is kind of my next step in determining what size scope I should go after

Oh, that's great. What is the brand of lens you are using? I have a Fujifilm xh2s and I have a 150 600mm lens, which lens should I buy?

great video! could you tell us what bortle the sky you shot in was?

my canon R50 will autofocus on stars with no problem but i still use manual when shooting at 50mm it doesn't change much.

Great video, great channel. Already subscribed, looking forward to practice with my same sensor xt30 ❤

Thanks for this awesome video. I like the quality of my XT20, but it cannot be used with NINA. So stuck with an even older Canon 550D instead. Do you know if your XT4 can do tether shooting with a PC please, Ian?

Thank you for the video! I just purchased the XT3 and already owned the Cat. What is the T ring adapter for this combo? Thank you!

Hi, Love your videos and I can't wait to go out and start taking pics again. I have a fuji gfx 100s and was wondering if this adapter is what I need. Wide (48mm) Low Profile T-Ring for Fuji GFX. Sorry for the newbie question. Thanks!

Awesome guide! That's cool the Fuji sensors are more sensitive to h-alpha. Are there low-cost Fuji bodies with this quality? Is it any body with an x-trans sensor? I see there are 3 generations now, is it all generations? Like would an X-E1 even work? Seestar is ok but has a really narrow field for having 250mm focal length, would love a simple setup like what you're showing to get much wider shots.

Ian thoughts on mechanical vs electronic shutter for astro? I wanna dabble in some astro but I dont want to throw a lot of money into this hobby and I am not able at this point to invest in star tracker and I also have a lot of light pollution, is it even worthwhile? Would I be able to get decent images of stuff like orion nebula untracked? I have an x-t30ii, xc 50-230 f4.5-6.7, a 18-50 f2.8 and a 135mm f2