What a trick indeed.

It is a beautiful piece. Have you done that trick where you point the camera at the north star and leave the shutter...I dont know how to explain it, my brother did it a long time ago. It makes all the starts look like speed lines as they go in a circle from the earth's rotation.

Yep! One problem with this... still have 30 second shutter as max, and if you use the "bulb" setting where you keep your finger planted on the shutter you inevitably get a lot of camera jitter, regardless of how steady you think your hand is. I might do it again sometime with this stacking software, but on good clear nights, there's better targets. I've been waiting to post the pictures of Andromeda I got! No, sorry, just a fuzzy blob. But I got it, and I'll get it much better next time!!!

Stacking software? Stars are all the same no matter which way you're pointing the camera, right? Just pasting a few layers in Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop and setting them to Screen would work, wouldn't it?

S-p-e-t-a-c-u-l-a-r!!!!!

Mmmmm! Still to come! Check my reply below, now that will be something to see!

Really cool. That has to be one of your best photos yet.

Mmm, truly just a beginning! Now we figure out how to properly um, exploit sounds kind of irreverent eh? Just saying! I do like the idea of having  horsieboy on horseback in the middle of that glow, now that would be spectacular!

So it only takes pictures of the sun?