First light and first tracking: Trifid Nebula

[Crushellon]

Finally got to imaging with my new setup :D Tracking was bad but I was learning how to use it all. Gonna give it another go tonight.

Heavily cropped due to coma... My local is out of f5 coma correctors so I have to wait for more to come in...

iso1600
60 x 120sec Lights
30 x Darks
101 x Bias

Hi Rez: http://www.astrobin.com/full/254717/0/

[Southernastro]

Nice job

[Atmos]

You have picked up some quite nice detail in the Triffid :) Well done.

[bobbyf]

Very nice Tim, well done :thumbsup:

[LightningNZ]

Man that's excellent.
-Cam

[Camelopardalis]

That's great Tim, well done :thumbsup:

[Crushellon]

Thanks guys. :) anyone know what the things are around the large stars? There's like a halo of light around them with like inverted spikes in the halo... Is it just bad collimation?

[Atmos]

Looks like star mask to me, like you have had the stars masked while darkening the background.

[Crushellon]

Yeh there is a bit of that but the halos with all the little spikes in them were in the unaltered image

[Atmos]

I know that something similar was caused on KAF-8300 sensors due to microlens' or something like that. With your DSLR, not sure.

[AG Hybrid]

Great work. Why are you posting in beginners images?