Big Dipper... is this real?

[FH_Sky]

Hello,

I am new here and new to digital imaging.

My friend lent me a little compact Lumix camera the other night and I piggy-backed it onto my telescope, which has a RA drive.

I found a 'starry night' setting on the camera (60 second exposure). I messed around with the result in Photoshop (mostly using levels) and this is what I got (before and after shown).... there is some noise (bottom left), but can all this information really be embedded in such a 'light polluted, single frame, 60 second exposure'???!!!

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Nice to meet you all.

[jgs001]

Hi Welcome to SGL... and you'll be surprised how much you can capture... What you won't get are any of the really faint stuff, but good job.

[RogerTheDodger]

can't see the pictures, are they attached?

[RogerTheDodger]

ah, they are there now...strange

[Psychobilly]

Welcome to SGL...

It looks "real" to me

Noise (hot pixels) would most likely be either Pure Red, Green or Blue... but the camera is probably doing in camera noise reduction to get rid of them...

Billy...