With a little reading up on a canon
Astrophotography page
I went out to get what I hoped would be some decent shots.
It was quite cloudy (unusually out here) but I ended up with some reasonable shots. This is saved as a low res web Graphic, but it gets the idea across. I am pretty happy, for a first serious go beyond point and shoot ! The camera does its own dark frames as part of the shot. So all I have done is a bit of processing on Saturation, Contrast and Gamma settings.