[Frostyvegi (Justin)]

Thanks for the welcomes everyone.

Did have a session on Tuesday night, but haven't been bothered to look through the photos I took.

A few questions that I've been meaning to ask.

I have a Canon 450D that I'm using with my 10 inch f/4 Newt and I've got it hooked up to the laptop running the Canon EOS remote program that came with the camera. There is a timer option that allows you to set up a shooting 'schedule' so you can set and leave it to take however many photos at whatever settings.. however for some reason the option to use this is greyed out when using anything but the auto settings on the camera (which means you are unable to set your ISO or exposure time). Is anyone aware of a work around to get this to work?

The alternative I've been looking at was a mouse macro program that I can set up to just click the button for me on the screen to essentially do the same thing.. but have yet to find a free one that works.

Next question, is there any printable resource which contains a essentially full listing of deep sky objects with their magnitude (so it's sortable as such) so I have something to work through, as opposed to printing out the many separate 'catalogues' to target?

-third edit-

Just regarding my first two shots, the first one was the best of a few straight shots, no stacking or editing done.. just played around with exposure times and ISO settings at the camera (not hooked up to the laptop at the time). The second was probably a dozen light shots at two different exposures and ISO's, and about 6 darks of each with a bit of cropping and adjustment in DSS. Finally located my version of Paintshop Pro that can be used to give even better post-processing.