[hotspur (Chris)]

Looking for some tips on time lapse astro.My son is up from Brisbane this current new moon,and bought along a Canon 14 mm F 2.8II (amazing glass-highly recommended!).We did some three minute exposures of Milky Way region last night (this lens is so way better than my 10-22 EF-S at 10 mm at F3.5).

Anyhow,the images were very nice,we had the lens on a Caonon 600D,and on Vixen GP mount with tracking.My son is talking about wanting to do time lapse.I am wondering if anyone here can point us to some links,or give some basic advice on how to go about it,we did three minute exp at f2.8 and iso 800,but lots of frames needed,so up the iso and lower the time.

Perhaps not a good time of year,with MW setting now.He wants to get an automated dolly trolly from work,and do that bit too (we will not be doing this tonight-think he has been on the net too much-he saw a clip from NZ time lapse astr0-with volcanoes-not doing that tonight either LOL)

There was quite a bit of interest and post on here a while back doing this sort of thing but I think it faded away a bit-there was a member called 'Fred Bassett' (name may not br correct-sorry),that had some fantastic posts on this.

Any help or pointers-much appreciated-son seems a bit interested in astro imaging-that lens will do very nicely for such.

thanks