[alistairsam]

Hi all,

this is my very first attempt at imaging (apart from tests with m42), took this last night from melbourne between clouds.

this is with an 8" F4 reflector on a home built fork mount with no autoguiding and no coma corrector. Just RA tracking with a picaxe microcontroller.
Canon unmodded 1000d.
10 x 30 sec subs at iso1600 and 10 darks.

just wanted to see what i could get.
I still have a long way to go with focus, coma, guiding and tracking, but apart from the obvious shortcomings, any other pointers?
how far away are the colours?

will a uhc-s filter yield more contrast?

corrected colours with the canon digital photo professional software after stacking in deep sky stacker.