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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[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

Ah, Orion, Taurus, and vicinity is one of my favorite parts of the sky. Probably because that's one of the few parts I can see well from home.