I'd give this a five star but for the ball head. It doesn't lock well with a spotting scope or a heavy lens and camera body on it. I ended up buying a Neewer pan/tilt head, which fortunately fits the K&F tripod well. Other than that, it is a decent piece of equipment. Just keep in mind, it is a travel tripod, and won't give you a solid mount impervious to wiggling from wind or hand adjustments. For that, I continue to look for that elusive affordable tripod.

The filter has the size of 10x10cm, weighs 47.5 gr and is 2mm thick, so it matches the filter holder from the same company. Made of anti-reflective glass, it allows to eliminate the noise caused by artificial lights (that is, the yellow part that appears below in the photos of the Milky Way, due to the city's artificial lights). The difference without the filter is noticeable, although a good post-production process will keep the artificial light while the filter is fully cut. With long exposures for the Milky Way, the amount of light captured by the sensor decreases slightly, but the raw power is rich in information and makes it possible to recover the Milky Way and the whole starry sky. It's possible to overcome this (i.e. capture more light) by using a tracker star or taking multiple shots (in my case, without a tracker star, with an f2.8 to 11mm, the max time to not getting the movement of stars is 30seconds). Even in the city it does its job eliminating that yellowish gradient in the sky and bringing out the beauty of the night lights.

needed a sturdy tripod for portable astrophotography with my DSLR and a telephoto lens with my little launch tracker. This tripod is VERY stable, just what I needed. Highly recommended for portable space photography!

Everything perfect

Amazing tripod indeed it is. Only reason for the 1 star is, I just unboxed this and noticed that one of the legs are broken on this as I was getting ready to do a test recording. And it's really annoying because it keeps calling apart and what notOtherwise, amazing tripod. I am definitely asking for a replacement as I'm not spending money on something that could have had a factory defective or just broken. I'll 5 star once I get replacement and that one is ok!

I'd give this a five star but for the ball head. It doesn't lock well with a spotting scope or a heavy lens and camera body on it. I ended up buying a Neewer pan/tilt head, which fortunately fits the K&F tripod well. Other than that, it is a decent piece of equipment. Just keep in mind, it is a travel tripod, and won't give you a solid mount impervious to wiggling from wind or hand adjustments. For that, I continue to look for that elusive affordable tripod.

The ring does what it is told. I deduct one star for the fact that I had to readjust the mount myself so that the aperture and focus indicator of my lenses is straight and not on the side.

The tripod is well made and very sturdy. It supports a decent size camera very well and it should hold a star tracker as well as the camera just fine.