No pixel peeping here please! High ISO, unguided and taken through a 40 year old Sun branded 200mm lens. I had a chance to go camping and fishing in Victoria's NE last weekend under Bortle 2 skies so that night while the campfire was glowing I set up an old HEQ5 mount (non GOTO) and shot 102 X 60 sec subs using a stock standard Canon 550d. As mentioned, I used an old lens I got off Gumtree for $80 and made an external aperture out of the plastic lid from a tennis ball container which fitted perfectly over the front of the lens. I had cut a hole ( obviously not very well, looking at the diffraction spikes on bright stars! ) to about f5 to tame the CA and edge aberrations.
So here's the result of just over one and a half hours at 3200 iso. Somewhat boring compared to Stefan's masterpiece but this being the more familiar view!
