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Thanks for your contribution everyone! :-)
I tried capturing the horsehead last night, but with an unmodded dSLR and a maximum exposure length of 30 seconds, all I managed was an incredibly noisy image where it's barely visible.
I also tried the rosette, which is what led me to create this the original post. Either I simply couldn't find it, or something about it makes it unsuitable for capture with my dSLR. It looks very bright in Stellarium, but even with ISO6400 and 30 sec exposures, I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm just retarded though ;-)
From that experience, I thought I'd ask here for good targets, because what I see in Stellarium doesn't seem to correlate with ease of capture. Some of what I've tried to capture, or have captured is:
* M42 - This is awesome, and easy
* Eta Carina nebula - Easy to find, hard to process for me
* Omega centauri - Easy to find
* Tarantula nebula - too dark for me to image currently
* Horsehead neb - again, too dark
* Beehive cluster - easy to find
* Southern pleiades - easy to find
* Jupiter - cool visually with its moons, but nothing but a spec to my ED80
I'd really love to get a decent image of a galaxy, but I'll need something pretty large to be able to get a decent image of it with the ED80 (Andromeda?)
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