I recently got outside in a dark sky for my second attempt at imaging with my Canon 500D. This time the targets were Carina and a very wide shot of the crux. I took more data this time and also applied darks, flats and biases (with DeepSkyStacker). Here are the results:
Carina, 20x8 sec @ 50mm f1.4 Canon prime lens, ISO400
Full Res ~5Mb
Crux over Torquay, 1x6 sec @ 18mm f3.5 (Canon EF-S 18-170mm) ISO800
Thanks for looking
J