Better Satellite Long Exposure

I looked online to see if I could build my own remote shutter. It turns out I can, but a rubber band and some duct tape worked just as well to continuously hold the button down! This let me leave the camera going for as long as I want, even as I went inside to warm up! It shortened the time between frames so star trail gaps should be smaller, and now there's no worry that me pushing the button will hurt the alignment of everything.

I left the camera to take 30 second exposures (6400 iso) for a half hour and the result is much more like what I was hoping for!

There are many more star trails, though I still imagined more. Some wind obviously vibrated the scope a bit during the process, but there's not much I can do about that. I love that the color of the stars is apparent and so varied.

While I had my rubber band solution set I figured I'd take a regular long exposure if the sky. There's less gaps in the trails thanks to holding the button down, and it's all a bit smoother without my hand bumping the alignment each time.