Astrophotography Bootcamp
Did I mention that I joined the Astronomical Society of Victoria? No? Well, I did, so I could meet other astro nuts and learn from them.
About a week after I joined (and created a FarceBook profile so I could join their astrophotography group) they announced a “Boot Camp” for astrophotographers. I was hooked, and put my name down for it straight away.
I won’t bore you with details, but I did manage to get one good image from the night’s work. I failed to get the star tracker aligned accurately, so there was a noticeable amount of drift between each frame, but Sequator sorted that out. A bit of fiddling with Affinity Photo and I had this: