IainMcD

Pretty nice!

Looks pretty nice. Orion is a good place to start.

Really nice.

Is that Supernova in M81 still about? I keep meaning to image it!

I don't know enough to  advise you on the halo, but you have plenty of gas.

Neil.

This made me chuckle.

I don't think I'll ever grow up.

Nice pics! I like that there's a little galaxy in the M13 shot.

Found the little [removed word]. Turns out, I think my finder scope had taken a knock at some point. I realigned it using jupiter as a mark. On my way to finding it however I accidentally stumbled across the Sunflower galaxy!

So here are my first two attempt at these two from last night.

M51 - Whirlpool, 120x30sec

M63 - Sunflower 60x30sec

Anyone identify the other two smudges? One faint one nearby, and the one at the top I think is NGC5103?

Pretty pleased with these.

That looks very nice Baffa.

M51 is my current target, but I'm having some difficulty even finding it! I know exactly where it is thanks to stellarium, and I'm willing to bet I've past it many times. Should it be visible in my scope (in sig).

I'm considering just going out and taking some subs of that area of the sky until I find it.

I am still learning my way so don't take this as gospel.

The camera will need to be on a manual setting (M).

Focal ratios between f4.5 and f6.3. Lunar shots need a longer ratios to reduce the amount of light captured, I believe.

ISO between 800 and 3200

Shutter time between 15 and 30 seconds. Any longer and star trails become noticable - which is fine if that is what you are after.

All done with the standard 18 - 55mm lens.

The two I posted plus the others in my gallery are all single exposures. I used a basic photo shop programme to get better balance.

Excellent, thanks. I just need to acquire a tripod!

That top one is really nice!

What settings did you use? I have the same camera, so I'd like to have a go at this myself one day.

Very nice, love the colours!

Loving that comet shot!

I'm dying to get a bright comet! I think the one I remember from when I was a kid was Hale-Bopp.

I always like the wide M31 shots, nice.

Yeah I was really pleased to get some of the running man in! I'm going to try to get more data on it in the coming couple of weeks, hopefully bring out more of the running man.

I wasn't happy in the end anyway, so I went back and tweaked it a little bit, it's not got as much red glow on it now, which I prefer:

Here is my first attempt at M42. Quite happy with this.

80x15sec @ ISO 800.

Very nice, good effort!

Well, you got M45 in, so partly

After a few teething problems, I'm finally underway, may I present, my first images:

All taken with 20x15s at ISO3200. No darks or anything yet. Just wanted to play about with stacking to get the hang of this.

The Double Cluster:

M31 Andromeda

M45 the Pleaides