After a few travels and travails since IISAC, here finally is what i managed to scrape out of the event by way of timelapse:
Smugmug: IISAC Timelapse - Third Night Lucky
Hint for new starters: when you're setting up a short tripod in long grass, look out for blades of grass in the field of view. It's better to clear it out of the way before you get back home and find it in your images
After IISAC, we spent a few nights with family south of Mudgee. Tried two nights in a row but these sequences are really more about weather and cloud than they are about astronomy! The clouds are interesting, but would have been nice to have caught more of the milky way setting in the west:
http://philhart.smugmug.com/Astronom...179_8JHQL-A-LB
For Houghy's benefit.. the panning head for my timelapse gear is just a
BinTel (Chinese) SkyView Alt Az mount (minus the altitude arm at the moment) with an old stepper motor and controller from my original tracking platform bolted onto the worm gear to drive it round slowly in azimuth.
Phil