Finally got some descent telescope time

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Hi all,
Well after discovering the joys (not) of an increased ambient temperature on a standard DSLR sensor with long exposure astrophotography over summer and enduring the what seemed like years of cloudy weather, I finally had nice crisp clear conditions last new moon weekend and I ended up pulling an all nighter. Having not setup the scope for literally months it was not as fine tuned as I would like so there are some obvious issues. On a slightly different note it is exactly a year ago to the day that I went down to Melb and ordered my astrophotography setup (didn't get it all in my hands and working until mid May last year)
Comments and critique more than welcome.
Cheers
Greg

Sombrero Galaxy
Canon EOS 1000D
Baader Coma Corrector
10 inch (25cm) F/4 Newtonian Reflector Telescope
NEQ6 PRO Computerised Goto Mount
Orion 80mm ShortTube Guide Scope
Synguider Autoguider
42 x 3 minute exposures
ISO 800
20 x 3 minute Dark frame subtracted
Images stacked and alligned in Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing in PS CS3


Antares
25/03/2012
Canon EOS 1000D
Baader Coma Corrector
10 inch (25cm) F/4 Newtonian Reflector Telescope
NEQ6 PRO Computerised Goto Mount
Orion 80mm ShortTube Guide Scope
Synguider Autoguider
21 x 3 minute exposures
ISO 800
20 x 3 minute Dark frame subtracted
Images stacked and alligned in Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing in PS CS3


The Swan Nebula
Canon EOS 1000D
Baader Coma Corrector
10 inch (25cm) F/4 Newtonian Reflector Telescope
NEQ6 PRO Computerised Goto Mount
Orion 80mm ShortTube Guide Scope
Synguider Autoguider
4 x 3 minute exposures (The synguider's batteries died only 12 minutes in to the 2 hours I set up for. Of course I didn't notice this until the end of the 2 hours but still pretty happy with the detail I got for those 12 minutes worth of data)
ISO 800
20 x 3 minute Dark frame subtracted
Images stacked and alligned in Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing in PS CS3

[RobF (Rob)]

Really nice shots Greg. I love the Antares area - you don't always see the field shot that way.

How did you intersperse the text and pics by the way? Don't see that on IIS commonly.

[TheDecepticon]

Good work, I like the Sombrero a lot.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you very much guys. Really appreciate the feedback. Rob- I used the attachments tool to upload them and then I just put them individually into the text as I wrote instead of selecting attach all.

[RobF (Rob)]

Quite effective presentation technique
Don't recall having seen it done that way before...

[Ross G]

Great looking photos Greg.

The Sombrero Galaxy shot is my favourite.

Ross.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you very much Ross I'm glad you like them.