Per aqua ad astra

In a couple of days I'll be in Espiritu Santo.

With the lovely clear air there I expect that the stars will be particualrly nice at night.

I know that this is pretty far off topic for U/W photography, but I'll ask anyway :oops:

I'd like to ask advice about taking a time exposure of the night sky with either a D100 or D70.

I plan to use the 10.5 and the 12 to 24 and experiment a bit, but which ohter settings particuarly noise reduction etc should I use?

I think the general consensus is to take a series of reasonably long (several minute) exposures then combine them using imagestacker or something similar. There are a number of posts on Photonet about this.