For a first attempt I think those all look decent, congratulations.

Actually, it was not my first attempt at astrophotography -- it
was the first one with a digital camera.

That's what I meant, with that new camera.

I had taken a few other
pictures using a film SLR camera, so I don't classify as an absolute
beginner -- but of course, I'm still far (very far) from being able
to claim that I'm an "expert" in astrophotography.

Some of the successful (and semi-successful) pictures are at:

http://www.mochima.com/personal

Several excellent images.


What is the max resolution that is available on that camera? Were you
using
it for these images?

It has a nice 3000 x 2000 resolution (6 megapixels). Yes, I was at
maximum resolution; with "High quality" JPEG compression, normal
images are about 2.5 Mbytes; but these, since 99.9% of the image
is just black, the files are usually below 200k or 300k

6 megapixels? I'm way behind the learning curve when it comes to the latest
and the greatest!! My 3 year old Sony FD-97 is just over 1 megapixel!! ;-)
Technology sure does get old fast around here!!


By the way, your Spanish is pretty good;-) I understood all of it!!

;-)

Well, it's good news that after 12 years living in Canada, the
area of my brain in charge of mother language is still operating
properly :-)

Looks like your from Spain? My family immigrated from Northern Spain to New
Mexico about 1697. We've stayed in the same general area since then.

Good luck with your new toy,

Francis Marion