The mounting turns out to be the important thing

[fivemack]

With a clever bit of mechanism to keep it pointed in the right direction, you can get quite reasonable pictures of the stars with a moderately fancy camera and lens from a desolate fen a mile outside Horningsea:

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[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Those are rather nice. Sadly, there's way too much light pollution around here to get any kind of decent image.