Neat pictures I've taken

[dmg1969]

Originally Posted by glatt

So when you stack them, that will subtract a lot of the noise from the consumer grade sensor? I've got a similar camera, and may try that. The night sky doesn't get very dark here though.

Yes, exactly Glatt. The DSS will average the dark frames and bias frames and create a master dark and master bias. DSS will then use those and the light images to create the image.

Having a lot of ambient light will definitely not help. The best thing to do is find a dark area away from the city on a night where there is a new moon. Moonlight will kill you. Once your eyes adjust, look for interesting areas of the night sky that appear to have smudges of the Milky Way and concentrate on those. Ten photos of each area should be fine. Then, take your 10 dark frames and 10 bias frames and you're done. Then, just download them and use DSS.