 Packing for a trip where I'll be flying and also may get a chance to do some astrophotography is always a difficult challenge for me because I like having lots of options and backups for everything so it's hard for me to pair it down and still have room for clothes or anything else that I might have to bring on a trip or vacation. My system though is to bring everything valuable like cameras, lenses, trackers, and so on in my carry-on luggage and anything else that won't fit or is easily replaceable like a tripod or clothes or toiletries in my checked bag. But in this video I just want to show you what I keep in my carry-on luggage which is this guy. It's the Pelican 1510 which is the largest rolling case that Pelican makes that will fit in the overhead compartment as a carry-on bag. Inside the case I opted for the Pelican's Trekpack dividers which I believe are the most expensive option but I love them. They're more durable than the pick and pluck foam which I can't stand for some reason and they also take up less room than the typical padded velcro dividers that I sometimes use. The best thing about them is that you can cut and design them however you want and they come with these little pins that makes putting them back together into different configurations really easy. Exactly what I bring is a little bit different for each trip but here's what I'm bringing this time on my trip to Wisconsin. I have two cameras here. This top one is actually a stand-in for the Canon ESRA which I'm filming with right now. I also have a backup camera. This is a modified Canon T7. Underneath the cameras in these compartments I have a case for my SD cards and a manual air blower which is always handy to have. Up here in this top corner I have a bunch of stuff. I have a lot of batteries. I have holders for things. I have intervalometers. All kinds of little accessories. Lots of backups of different accessories that might fail. Down in this little compartment I have a 3D printed Badanov mask. I have some electrical tape and I have a little gray card slash color chart that I always just have with me just in case I need it. Here are the lenses I'm bringing. Again this is something that changes every time depending on what I hope to shoot on the trip. But on this trip I have the Canon RF-85 that I rented for a week just for this trip. Roking on 135 and a Sigma 40 millimeter. Below the lenses I have a little Petzl headlamp. I've had this for a long time. Works well. And then finally over here last thing I have my full Skywatcher Star Adventure including the counterweight and the counterweight shaft and the declination bracket and everything. It all fits fine. The last thing so basically I have everything that I need here except for one thing which is the tripod and as I mentioned at the beginning of the video this goes into my checked bag because it's too big to fit in here. If I really wanted to go light I could maybe get like one of those travel tripods that could fit in like my second carry-on bag. But I like having the full size tripod. I'm using an i-footage carbon fiber one and so I just put this into my checked bag and wrap my clothes around it and that works well. And again the strategy here of putting all of this in this carry-on bag is this is all stuff I don't want to replace. So I want it securely with me. I don't want it to end up lost somehow. So what am I missing? You can tell me in the comments. You know sometimes I bring a laptop but honestly a lot of times I bring it and then end up not using it because on a vacation or a trip I'm not going to process my photos until I get home and yeah if I brought a computer of some kind I could then use an auto-guider and all of this other stuff and I could dither and possibly get better data. The thing is though my strategy here is to have backups for all the important things and have not such a complex setup that there's possible points of failure where I'm not going to have all the stuff I have at home to fill in. And if so if I'm out for a week without any stores I'd rather have as much stuff in backup as possible and keep it as simple as possible. So that's my strategy with packing for a trip like this one. Hope it made sense. This has been a 5-minute Friday. Next week I'm going to be in Wisconsin but I'll be back for the next 5-minute Friday hopefully next week. Till then this has been Nico Carver at NebulaFotos.com. Clear skies.