Had some clear sky last night after sooooo long!
Decided to use the time and try out some more photographs of the night sky with the new canon 1200D on it's tripod.

Out of a good 50+ images I selected these two for posting.
A lot of the others were trying out the different ISO settings etc. to see how the camera behaves.
I am still learning the ropes here in anticipation of some short exposure AP down the road.
These two images are not very well framed as I cannot see the target through the viewfinder, it was a bit of trial and error getting them in the frame at all!!
I did not use the laptop so that made it even more challenging, a good learning exercise!

Here are two images, the first is Eta Carina and surrounds.
The second is the Crux and surrounds.
These are both single shot images, no stacking etc.
They were both processed, very minimally I might add in Star tools, mostly contrast and colour module/s.

To the right of Eta Carina you can spot the Southern Pleiades, to the top of the image is NGC 3114 (OC) and just below Eta Carina is the OC known as The wishing well cluster, NGC 3532.

The settings are as follows:
ISO 1600
10 sec exposure
Focal length 100.0 mm
F4.5



The Crux or Southern Cross.

ISO 800
30 sec exposure
F5.6
Focal length 51.0 mm

You might have a hard time spotting the Crux in among all the stars that show up in the image.
When viewing this naked eye I can only see the four main stars that make up this constellation with my LP constraints.
The camera however sees a whole different kettle of fish!