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Hi Russel,
Good first attempt. What was your focal length and F/number of the aperture you used. I would have expected it to be a bit brighter than that for the ISO used unless you had the aperture stopped down a bit. I would be shooting wide open. I'm guessing this is the standard 18-55mm kit lens. Shoot at 18mm and use F/3.5. I'm not familiar with the 600D but I am guessing that it can go up to 6400 or maybe even 12800 ISO. So I would also be increasing the ISO to 3200. If you use 18mm, to work out the shutter speed, use the 600 Rule. The 600 rule is 600 divided by the TRUE focal length to give the shutter speed before the stars begin to trail too much to be noticeable. The 600D is not a full frame camera so we need to apply a crop factor to get the true focal length. Canon crop factor is times 1.6. So 18mm x 1.6 = 26.8. The 600/28.8= 20.8 seconds (Call it 20 seconds)
Focus looks a little soft. Set up the camera with the above settings and point the camera at the brightest star/planet you can see. Use magnified live view to zoom in on it and manually focus the lens until the star appears as small and tight as possible.
Hope this helps a bit.
Cheers
Greg
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