Thanks for a great post, Bart, and for your great explanations during the Nosillacast segment.

It certainly is so much better doing astrophotography now with digital gear. I remember many times as a teenager shooting star pics with my film SLR and being limited to a fixed ISO per roll of film, then having to wait for processing to see the photos. A couple of times when I sent rolls of astropics off for processing they came back as processed negatives with no prints and a note attached saying that there was nothing on the film.

We're spoilt down here in the Southern Hemisphere (Australia for me) with the galactic centre being visible throughout the nice still-air nights of winter, making for very rich star fields in our photos.