Thanks for looking and posting your nice comments Liz and Marc, I appreciate them.
The biggest problem in shooting from Brisbane is the horribly light polluted skies and it wasn’t until I fitted the Astronomik CLS filter which blocks the worst wavelengths that I could begin to expose for longer than say, 30 seconds, without the skies turning a yucky colour.
Here are a couple of example photos. The first is a 60 sec shot (60mm) without the filter showing the horrible sky tones. The second is the raw, unprocessed 60 second shot (17mm) with the filter which I originally posted above.
Cheers
Dennis