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Hi, Just a few tips that in my opinion is good to know. USE RAW FORMAT You need a place with minimal light polution. Stativ, lots of time, a remote for your camra, if your phone has infrared senor no need for a separate remote, you can use your phone. My Huawei P20 pro has that, or Samsung Galaxy S5 and S6, also Huawei Mate 10 pro, 20 pro.

Here is the app i use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dslr.camera.ir.remote.full

1. your cam has a crop factor of 1.5 that means any lens you put on multiply by 1.5. your 18mm x 1.5 = 27mm. When you take pictures with 18mm you actually making them with 27mm.
2. use the 500 rule for shutter time. 500/27mm = 18.5 seconds (you can go 20 seconds), longer and you get star trails.
3. ISO, start with the ISO 1000 and go slightly higher dont pass 3200, otherwise you will have very noisy pictures.
4. Aperture as open as your lens goes.

Important: FOCUS: Must be on manually. How to: Turn live view on and point your camera to a street light or a light further away and press the zoom in button till you can see the light on your screen, now you can easily focus that light.

Now point your camera towards stars and have fun, just take care not to touch the focus ring again.

Lightroom or similar for Editing your pictures.

If you want to know more, just ask.

Apps i use for help Light polution app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pa.lightpollutionmap

Save some money, if your phone has an IR blaster, use this app.

It works perfectly on my D3400 and I have a Samsung S6. You just have to put it into the correct shutter mode via the release mode button.

If you have an Android smartphone with an IR blaster, there are remote shutter apps with intervalometer capabilities.

I have used this one without problems with a Samsung S5 and both D3400 and D3500, although I haven't actually yet tried non-test intervalometer shots yet, only the remote shutter. Saves carrying a separate remote.

You might consider that phones with IR blasters are rare, but it wouldn't be entirely crazy to pick up an old cell phone on the used market, don't install a SIM, and use it just as a time/GPS source and IR controller. It will still download the necessary GPS data periodically by wifi even if it is no longer connected to the cell network, and with so many old cell phones on the market it might be cheaper than a real intervalometer. And no stinking cables!

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I am using this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dslr.camera.ir.remote.full&hl=en RC-5 setting works perfectly with my 750D