>>2613792Planets are short exposures (1/30-1/400th of a second, more or less), capturing widefield is quite a bit more involved.
This image of the big dipper asterism was captured with about 100 5-second exposures with a DSLR mounted to a stationary tripod. These are RAW CR2 images. While the sky is moving, the short focal length of the lens minimized it within the image. I specifically travelled to a location without many artificial light sources. I then stacked it all together in Deep Sky Stacker.
Notice how it kind of looks awful, and very red. Thankfully, this is a high bitdepth image, so we can do some work to it.
