Stars!

[GuitarFreak]

I'm lucky, I got a nice clear night to test out my 50D. Here's what I came out with:

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1641/woop1024.jpg

~12 minutes of exposures at ISO3200. There's quite a bit of light pollution here, but it's not that bad. This is my first attempt at stacking photos as well. How does it look?

[jlysjm]

looks nice, but how about a touch more contrast...

[jlysjm]

whoops, didn't notice you don't have image editing ok... I'll delete the previous if you want.... sorry

[GuitarFreak]

Ooo, nice. That does look better. Thanks :D

I do have photoshop lightroom. I use that to import all of my pictures. I didn't really play around with that one too much yet. Still working on the other pictures I took.

Here's another one. 16 minutes at ISO1600

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/356/awod21024.jpg

[Martin Dixon]

I attempted some stacking - I thought this was all about taking many underexposed images and "adding" them, but the systems I looked at are all expecting correct exposure then using multiple images for noise reduction. What did your do with what software? When you say 16mins I guess you mean several short exposures? Or do you have a tracking motor?

[GuitarFreak]

Yeah, I took a bunch of 30s exposures and stacked them. I wish I had a tracking motor, but I don't.