[renormalised (Carl)]

Took this shot using a little hand held tonight at around 7pm.

One shot of a series of 15 exposures (which I may or may not stack later and see what I get...probably not worth it since it's a hand held)

Anyway, it's a shot around Crux-Centaurus. You can see all the usual objects...Alpha Centauri, Hadar, all the Cross stars, Alpha Circini and some of the stars in Musca, plus a faint Omega Centauri and Jewel Box.

Some processing in The GIMP (unsharp mask, touch up on the highlights and such, colour balance and some curves to taste)

Canon Powershot A460, Av3.5, FL 9.8mm, ISO400, 15 sec exposure