Saw both of last nights passes from the pub beer garden - hoorah! 

Hmmm ... setting "long exposure noise reduction" can make a significant difference ... but the fact remains that you've got to capture lots & lots of photons to reduce thermal noise. Noise reduction software can tidy things up but at the expense of fine detail in areas of flat tone, and some artifacts in high contrast areas of the image.

Should have washed her first.

Thanks for the comments chaps 

Good capture anton! 

Well, I think long exposures like this will show noise, infact photos of some dark gray  clouds when taken to 50% even show noise-maybe something like Ninja or Nik's Define2 is worth considering,Richard.

You caught it  though,Anton. and it looks fine to me.I like the clouds too.

Thanks for the comments. #1 was at about 90 degrees to the Moon so I think I was picking up a lot more light than the others that were almost to my back. Those lights coming down the hill were actually a large flatbed semi using his jake brake all the way down, very noisey! Anton, I think I was at 2-3 minutes, f/5-6.3 in that area, ISO 100-200. I tought the lower ISO would negate some of the noise along with noise reduction, but maybe that length of exposure just gets everything too hot! These look more like the 30 second exposures I take at 1600. I have heard and read in reviews that my Canon 400D is very noisey and agree fully. Maybe an upgrade in the future!! Thanks everyone.

Love the movement of the clouds and the ISS, really a nice backdrop for your scope. We had a very bright twilight pass last evening, about -3.3, I called my wife out to look. I was wondering how long, if ever, it would be until a U.S. ship approached the ISS again. Thanks for sharing Anton.

Not a brilliant image of the ISS tonight through the clouds and Altair, hoping the sky will clear for the next transit due at 11:27PM.