Original thread from yesterday.

Thanks to some very helpful comments, especially a link from /u/lukemasters to an older post by /u/dinoalt, I'm quite pleased with the results from my first foray into stacking and milky way panoramas!

I thought I'd share the results with y'all. Feedback and tips for future trips are always appreciated.

• Galactic Center - Single integration from the night - no stacking, for reference.
• Milky Way Panorama - 23 shots at 11 mm (Tokina 11-16), f/2.8, ISO 1600, 20 second exposure. Profile corrections enabled in Lightroom, then stitched in Microsoft ICE. I realized that despite my best intentions, I didn't fill in enough toward the top of the arc, so there's some serious stretching just outside the crop.
• Zoomed Galactic Center - 8 minutes total integration (10 second exposures) at 24 mm (18-55 Nikon Kit Lens), f/4.0, ISO 6400 stacked with DSS and corrected with 8 minutes of dark frames.
• Wide-Angle Galactic Center - 3 minutes total integration (15 second exposures) at 11 mm, f/2.8, ISO 6400 stacked with DSS and corrected with 3 minutes of dark frames.

Next on my to-do / wish-list is an alt-az tracking mount and a telephoto to try to go after Andromeda (its fuzzy ass shows up in so many of my shots, just tantalizing me!)