This is the first real chance I've had to post some of my images. I got them into our local club's newsletter but I thought it might be worth showing them off here too.
I am extremely happy with 2 of them so far. They are a huge improvement to last years.
They are M31 and Crux region.
Both are taken with my Canon 50D at 3200ISO (I know, I know the noise. But I only have a short duration for reliable tracking using the 300mm lens) on the Losmandy StarLapse.
M31 is roughly 4 hours of 2-3 min subs over 3 different nights.
Crux was made up of about 40 mins of 3 min subs from one evening.
After 10 days of less than 4 hrs of sleep each night and kids up at 6:30am, I think it was worth the effort. I can't wait till next year. The one night travel/setup/observe/sleep/pack-up of weekend camps are not as enjoyable as Astrofest.
Thanks everyone for all the comments. I'm really pleased with these two. My favourite is definitely m31. It's made the phone screen! Can't resist the inadvertent show off! :-)
I don't think I'm anywhere near as good as Tony. I couldn't have done these without his help. He checks my course alignment, helps me find what I want to capture, advises me about the mysteries of darks and flats, helps me stay awake in the early hours and puts up with me grumping if things don't go right. To top it off he lets me use his computer (big thing in my house!) to stack my images then he plays with them in Pixinsight to produce the amazing shots.
I'm only just learning about these techniques. It's very different process to wide field and film. I never really planned to go this way with my Astro-photograph but I'm really enjoying it.
