It's great so have such a good Aussie site for such a niche hobby
Thanks kindly for the quick replies! That's set it a bit clearer in my head indeed.
So as long as my guider is tracking something, and assuming mount alignment is good, I should either have at least a little (up to 90deg) room to move the imaging camera to the position I like without it throwing off the effective overall alignment provided by the mount. I assumed they both had to be pointed in the same direction for it to work without the stars moving.
... Or I can cheat
and take the foreground and background separately and combine later with software
Anyways, here's my pick of the litter so far:
Acrux 10x60sec (guided) @ ISO400 (stacked in DSS 3.2 with 10 darks/flats/bias and RAW expanded in PS - Didn't play with the color just sharpened it and backed the exposure off a tad)
Focus is off a little intentionally to better show the difference in the colors of the main cross stars... but I WOULD say that even if it was unintentional lol
http://tinypic.com/r/of1t7l/7
Eclipse 16/06/2011
Tamron 100-300mm F5-6.3 (300mm F6.3 ISO1600 1/2sec single frame)
http://tinypic.com/r/sqrq6b/7
Moon and clouds 2010
Canon 50mm F1.8 (50mm F2.8 ISO100 1sec single frame)
Orange was more of a peach, till I fixed it in PS... Whatev looks better this way xD
http://tinypic.com/r/15cms6t/7
Hope you like
J