Focus Focus Focus!

I spent several hours out in the cold last night shooting M31. While the images looked great on my Nikon D40 screen after taking each individual frame, once I got them home to processing software they looked out of focus. Stars were blurry, and while I captured good luminosity around the galaxy and its companion, the resulting image is pretty poor. Buggah!!!!

Below is the best I could do, processing-wise, with the images that I took. Tons of noise, weird vignetting, out of focus, grrr.....


















Oh well, next time...