Widefield images
The following are images taken simply by pointing a camera up at the sky. Some are the result of stacking several images together via free software, some are just point and shoot. Most involved a cheap portable tripod although not all.This first shot is of orion. Very 'of the moment' using my pocket sized w60, while leaning on a wall, in spain.
This shot is taken with a canon 550d, mounted on a tripod, standard supplied canon 18-50mm lens, 8 shots of 6 second exposure, stacked in DSS. The non stacked images were almost as good but some extra detail was brought out by stacking. You can clearly see the hideous light pollution creeping in the bottom of the picture, I live in london :(
This shot is 2 images roughly joined to give a widefield shot of most of the sky visible from my garden. You can clearly see orions belt, sword and nebula. As well as M45 (Pleiades). Taken simply by pointing the canon 550d upwards, steadied on a door frame. Due to the long exposure (this is actually pitch black at 1am) the light pollution from all those kebab shops can be clearly seen glowing upwards.
Many of the stars and objects seen in these images were not seen at the time. The extra exposure of the camera allows them to be brought out.