Adventures in AP without AP gear

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I imaged the North American Nebula last night – again without the aid of any tracking or dedicated astro-gear. It’s a tough one and extremely faint – I wasn’t able to get much detail or correct colour balancing by stacking 1.6sec exposures but it is visible:

The following is an untracked image created from stacking 99 x 1.6 sec exposures of Andromeda: