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So this is what you need if you just want to get a picture of the night sky. You don't have to buy an expensive DSLR camera to just getting started.

However, an action camera is not a DSLR, and it has a reason for the cheap price compared to a flagship DSLR camera. The lens is fixed, the sensor is small, the features are limited, parameters are not clear (deliberately, by the manufacture).

With all those efforts, I think that's the best of what I can get from this cheap (350 USD) action camera. However, with a proper DSLR camera, I don't mean the flagship one, but any decent one, I think that will be the worst you can get, and with the same effort (I spend a lot of time on calculating the NPF rule, testing the pre-processing software, and the camera itself), I'm sure you can get much better result, even with less effort.
QT: qoto.org/@skyblond/11262507003

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By using the pixel merge feature provided by the hardware (instead of using software when pre-processing), the image quality is much better, aka le...

I don't buy a DSLR camera because I don't want to enable the possibility of me buying all kinds of expensive lens for taking pictures of birds, stars, deep sky objects, etc.

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