Hi Guys,

After a little while of intermittent viewing due to work commitments I finally managed to get outside for a few hours last weekend and had a decent viewing session. At the tail end of the session I hooked up my Canon DSLR to the HEQ5 mount (provides very nifty steadiness) and fired off 160 subs @ ISO 3200 and 1.3s so a totla exposure time of roughly 3.5mins.

The image post processing (i have alot to learn here) came out as:

This is compressed of course but that doesn't account for the poor quality only my astro-photography and image processing skills can be blamed for that.

I think its a good step forward though so looking forward to thoughts on how this compares to other beginners and pointers on how to get better image's using processing?

Koraki