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I used to take pictures of objects in space using film, but what got me started with digital astrophotography was the good pictures of planets I got using a point-and-click off-the-shelf camera down my telescope eyepiece.

These pictures are: Venus, when it was a large crescent in New Year '07, through a window across a city street; Mars, when it was closest in '03 from my patio and Saturn in '07, from a dark countryside location (obviously they're not to scale).