Settle down Ken
the pics will be coming shortly, I only forgot to do one thing, and that was to change the ISO setting on the camera.
I'm used to short exposures of about 30 Sec's each, so 800 ISO was Ok for that, but when i took some tonight for 3 min's each that setting was to fast and although the stars were nice and round the exposure was over exposed and very light.
Should have set it to about 200 or so, Ah well, i'll fix that tomorrow night.
Pete, hope you have success as well, it isn't quite as hard as i thought, and hopefully with some more practice things will be better.
But then I did have a good teacher.
Cheers Leon
