Well, must be on a roll! Got about 25mins of clear sky here tonight, and in that time I managed to get my 4" refractor out on the EQ3-2 mount, with my Canon 400D stuck on the end at prime focus. Pointed roughly at the Pleiades, and took some 20s exposures. Cloud came in. Packed up. Uploaded images to computer, did the "false flats" thing, and hey presto!

Very poor by most standards, but infinitely better than anything I thought I'd be able to pull off with the time / experience / gear I have. Chromatic aberration in full effect, clearly. But hey, it's a reasonably deep image of a beautiful object.

I was pleased, anyway!!