Photography

I'm lucky enough to live in a rural, dark-sky area of Virginia where the Potomac River joins the Chesapeake Bay. A few times, mostly in the winter when humidity is low, Andromeda is a naked-eye object here -- it's just a dim smudge naked-eye, not much better in binos. We had two good nights last week, I caught Andromeda both nights, binos.

My telescope is a 12-inch Dob, so astrophotography is pretty much out of the question, although I've had a little luck shooting Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn using a point-and-shoot camera held up to the eyepiece -- it's hit or miss.