Need a few more exposure settings but I did manage to digitally tweak one photo to show a few stars. The two bright lower stars are Alpha Centari and Beta Centari----those stars in which all those B grade sci-fi movies claimed were the homes of invading aliens. The four brighter stars above those two and near the top are part of the Southern Cross or "Crux". The long vertical axis of the cross runs left to right. The drawing below shows the method to finding the direction south similar to the Big Dipper aiding in finding the North Star (Polaris)
Canopus is the second brightest star in the sky, and we can see it near the southern horizon (in the Winter only) here in the southern U.S. - it flashes like crazy and changes colors at that angle...quite a sight.
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