[Mickoid (Michael)]

Last Friday, a mate and I went out to a nice dark site about 90min drive from home. What a difference it makes. We set the HEQ5pro mount on some garden pavers in a paddock by the river, had good views of north and south. Shot about 48 x 70 sec subs @1600iso, unguided with a modded Canon 550d using a 6 inch f 5 Skywatcher Newtonian. The power supply died on us which was disappointing, as we had hoped to do more. On closer examination 23 of the 48 had eggy stars so this is just a stack of 25 subs - 29 mins of the roundest stars. We also shot 12 x 10secs to capture detail in the core. Lucky to get what we did. A nice way to finish the day after a pub meal, some fishing and then some astrophotography. During the night a koala even came over to check us out!