Gaubachis

I got back into the hobby recently after having been away for a good 15 years or so (thanks to university, work, kids etc). I purchased a used 10in Skywatcher Dobsonian on a Goto upgrade mount, which I'm loving. I was fully expecting to use the telescope for visual observing only, but then I found this thread. Reading on a few other forums, it seemed heavily discouraged to image with an Alt-az mount. I did get the sense that most detractors were long term, experienced APers. Not liking to be told what can and can't be done, I decided to give it a shot. The first two pictures, M1 Crab Nebula and M37, are stacks of 10s subs, about 10 each, taken with my Galaxy S7 afocally. I impressed myself at the results I could get with this crude setup! Having caught the astrophotography bug, I busted out my old Canon 300d that was accumulating dust in my basement. I had a go at M42 with my 300d. a mix of about 10x10s and 5x30s subs. I was a bit disappointing at the trailing, then again it was quite windy that night... The last two images I caught Sunday night, a nice windless night. With my 300d I re-imaged M37, with about 10x20s subs.. I then got ambitions and shot NGC2683 with 10x20s subs. While I don't think my rig will produce award-winning pictures, I'm definitely enjoying this!