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EOS R8 How to start interval timer after exposure

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Hey, so I've recently been getting into doing more Night Sky Photography. And I've been wanting to do star trails.  So I've been playing around with camera settings trying to get it to work. And the best I was able to get was 16 shots so far, with an interval timer of 20s. 

The reason I had it set to 20s is because the timer appears to start when the button is pressed. And not when the photo is finished, I've been looking stuff up and searching through manuals and settings trying to find someway to delay the timer start until after the picture is done. That way I only need a 1s timer. 

I did figure out how to set it to just continuously shoot. Which would work, but I'd rather be able to set it to a specific amount of shots.  And I do realize I could just do the math of how long each picture will take, then just wait the specific amount of time until its gotten the desired amount, but that just seems overly complicated. 
I also would rather not buy an Intervalometer yet, if I can just use my cameras settings instead.

Thanks
~Sawyer

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