The crappiest picture of the Orion Nebula you've ever seen - but it was taken without a telescope and without a tracking mount, with the same simple camera as used for http://twitpic.com/88kikv (now just 2.5 seconds exposure time and an equivalent focal length of 735 mm f/5.2 at 1600 ISO). Heavily cropped, of course.

The crappiest picture of the Orion Nebula you've ever seen - but it was taken without a telescope and without a tracking mount, with the same simple camera as used for http://twitpic.com/88kikv (now just 2.5 seconds exposure time and an equivalent focal length of 735 mm f/5.2 at 1600 ISO). Heavily cropped, of course.