Astro images taken with Canon 40D, 200mm F/2.8 lens, ISO 800, 2 minute exposures at F/4. Tripod mounted Astrotrac. Combined using DeepSkyStacker, very minimal & crude post processing with Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Terrestrial images taken with Canon 40D, 10-22mm wide angle lens, tripod & remote switch.
M101 - I was all prepared and my laptop died. I switched over to the remote switch and set up for 20 subframes. Something happened between that night in the field and my home office, because I could only find 6 subexposures. Perhaps my camera battery died or I accidentally removed the other images. In any case, I was very happy with the results given only 6 exposures. Nearby galaxies are identified in red.
I was asked for the uncropped version of the Rosette Nebula. It is here. Please be aware that when I cropped the image for the above photo, I processed the cropped version. I had to reprocess the uncropped version so it will not match the above version, and it is of poorer quality because I didn't take the time to do it as well.