Wow. What an image:

Image Credit: NASA
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — From between lightning masts surrounding the launch pad, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft roars into the blue sky aboard an Atlas V rocket spewing flames and smoke. Liftoff was on time at 2 p.m. EST from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. […]

Canon 20D with 50mm F/1.4 prime; 4″ F/3.2 ISO-100
Venus lurks down between the trees; 2-day-old waxing crescent Moon is illuminated by doubly-reflected sunlight.
Taken 8 June 2005.

Canon 20D & 50mm F/1.4 prime; 1/100″ F/4 ISO-100
Taken 10 June 2005

From the archives:

Canon 20D, 17-40mm L; 17mm 1/25″ F/5.6 ISO-100

17mm F/7.1
18 July 2005, Spicewood Texas.

29 May 2005 — Spicewood, Texas

11 January 2006
10:40 PM CST
95% waxing gibbous Moon
Orion XT10i & TeleVue 35mm Panoptic
Canon 20D and 17-40mm f/4L @ 40mm, f/7.1, 1/160″ ISO-100 Eyepiece projection
The above image was taken just prior to zenith transit. About ten minutes later I was treated to a gorgeous lunar halo, which was a challenge to frame even pulling back to […]

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11 January 2006
2:51 AM CST
91% waxing gibbous Moon
Orion XT10i & TeleVue 35mm Panoptic
Canon 20D and 17-40mm f/4L @ 40mm, f/5.6, 1/125″ ISO-100
Eyepiece projection
Can’t help but wonder what I could muster with a rig actually designed for astrophotography.
Anyone want to donate an apochromatic refractor?