First try at astrophotography

This is my first try at taking picture of the night sky. I used my Canon 60D with the 18-55 kit lens. Settings were f/5, iso 6400, 30 sec., at 25mm. These were taken Sunday night at Lake Almanor, CA.
In the first image(click here), you can see the ISS as it passed over at about 11:00pm.
The second image(click here), is one i made with Startrails using the images i took that night.
Here is a link to all the photos http://www.flickr.com …8/sets/72157634​967905708/
All of these are sooc as I am on vacation and my desktop is at home. C&C welcome Thanks for looking!

Nice work! You can possibly try to adjust your exposure setting and reduce some digital noise. I also own 60D and at iso6400, there are a lot of noise introduced. So try to keep it below 4000 mostly.
Seems like you did great job in focusing stars and all other stuff. Great star trail!

Far better than my first attempts a number of years ago, well done!

For star trail images, try turning off long-exposure noise reduction. Yes, it will probably increase visible noise, but you'll get something that looks a lot more like a continuous line and not a dotted line when you stack them together, because the camera won't be taking a "dummy" exposure that's just as long as your actual exposure in-between each shot.

--Greg