Both Friday and Saturday nights were pretty clear for astrophotography so not one to miss an opportunity, I took myself out to the outskirts of Melbourne for some darker skies. I planned to take C/2017 Panstarrs K2 with a Tamron 500mm Mirror lens but I was too late on arriving at site and it was setting below the trees. Before I packed up I took 15 x 30sec (7.5mins!) of M8 and M20 at 3200iso, using a modded Canon 550d on an iOptron Sky Tracker Pro. The good seeing and transparency certainly helped achieve a better than expected result, especially with such a short integration time and a 500mm Mirror Lens fixed at f8.
Saturday I did some widefield using the modded 550d and a 50mm lens mounted on a Sightron Nano Tracker. 30 x 60secs at 1600iso for Rho ( Can you spot comet c/2017 Panstarrs in the lower right hand corner? ) but Melbourne's light dome washed out the bottom half of this shot
. The Milky Way shot was a two panel combo, both panels only 2 x 120secs at 800 iso with the modded 550d.