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I have long been interested in astronomy and have made many attempts to capture the night sky on film. Unfortunately I only have a small scope(An Opticron 3 inch spotting scope) but most photographs are taken straight through the camera, as to get photos thru a scope requires a clock drive to move the scope in order to counter the earth's rotation. I use the scope for viewing only.
 



Lunar Eclipse-August 1989

I had no film in my camera at the time and so I made sketches showing the stages of eclipse.
 



Orion's Belt

This is a fixed camera shot with an exposure of around 4-8 seconds on colour film. I used the Canon camera with its 75-300 at around 200mm.
 



New binoculars!

I recently picked up  these Bresser 10x50s  from Lidl, selling for an amazing £12.99!
They are amazingly good both for astro and terrestrial viewing with rise and fall ruber eyecups over long eye relief eyepieces, great for spectacle wearers like myself!
 
 



Pleiades (M45)

This was originally photographed on colour film but it went unprinted by the processor. I wanted to see if I had been successful and so I printed the negative myself at college. Exposure was about 8 seconds on 200 ASA colour film, 75-300 zoom at f5.6.Slightly enlarged at printing.
 



Comet Hale-Bopp, 1996

This was spotted from an upstairs window in my mom's house and photographed with a standard zoom(28-70). It was quite a bright comet and presented fantastic views through my small scope!
 



Moonshot

This was taken through the eyepiece of the above scope, using my Sony Ericsson W800i phone.