[g__day (Matthew)]

Thanks very much for your comments guys,

For interest I imaged this shot below by combining the last 3 nights - in total 11 shots mainly at 20, 30 or 60 minutes (and ensure I took plenty of darks at 1 hour yesterday) put together in DeepSkyStacker and leveled and streched in CS4.

I know my image manipulation has a long learning curve - but I am happy that for my level of gear I am starting to get good signal / noise ratio (relative to my light drenched location) and with a plain Canon 400D (through a Hutech LPS filter).

The guiding is up to where I am fairly happy with it.

Yes Dennis - it's a C9.25 at F10

Peter - I wish - once I've saved up some pennies - that my next wish list item - then I have to work out which CCD best matches my OTA. So for the remainder of this year I'll practice image processing - then I'll graduate to CCD once the Bank balance looks healthier!

So here is a 11 shots comprise around 7 hours of data over three nights.

Beren

Yes the framing was a tad wrong - I only realign every couple of months - its been switch on, issue a goto and 2 minutes later I am imaging. I didn't expect the data and tracking to be that good - was more of an experiment, otherwise I would have nailed the framing and taken some shorter shots, layered it so that the core two / three stars wasn't blown out.

Matt