Whooooaaaa!!
I just posted a couple of images!! LOL! Wow, I didn't expect to check the replies to find an all-out war raging...sheesh.., you blokes...
Anyway, thanks for your comments and critisisms. I get a great deal out of both.
I read the PDF and tried to understand it. Some people have told me that taking lots of shorter images will increase the signal and decrease the noise. Others have told me to take longer exposures to achieve the same thing. I'm confused now. I saw Eric's image of the Trifid and I noticed that he did 7 frames at 7 minutes, as a pose to my 25 frames at 1 minute.
His is MUCH better!
I think I will have to start going for longer exposures and lower my ISO.
The problems I have left, are the red creeping in, due to the unmodded filter in the 400D, the noise due to heat in an uncooled camera and the TERRIBLE vignetting I get now that I am using a focal reducer.