Do you know what's the biggest object in the night sky? There are tens of objects those apparent size are bigger than the moon. Exactly to say they are aggregates of stars or gas and dust. you could take photos of some of them with digital camera if you have a little patience and some good luck.
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North America Nebula  NGC7000  and  Pelican Nebula  IC-5067    Location: Kiyosato in Yamanashi Pref. Japan Date: September 21th '2004 23:04:15- (JST) Camera:NIKON D70-NonIRCF   AiAF MicroNikkor105mm F2.8D(F2.8)   Exposure: 144sec+94sec   Filtration:LPS-P1 WB:sun   Sensitivity:ISO400   NR:on Data format:RAW  Portable Equatorial: KENKO SkyMemoR Arranged with StellaImage4 & Photoshop 7.0
Around HorseHead Nebula  B33 in IC434    Location: From the veranda of the apartment house where I live in Tokyo. Date: January 3rd '2005 03:00:21- (JST) Camera:NIKON D70-NonIRCF   AiAF Nikkor180mm F2.8D(F2.8)   Exposure: 4X120sec   Filtration:LPS-P1 WB:sun   Sensitivity:ISO400   NR:On Data format:RAW  Equatorial: Vixen SXW Arranged with StellaImage4 & Photoshop 7.0

Rosette Nebula  NGC2237-9 (Unicorn)

It is said that the nebula is easily-photoed one in H-alpha nebulas. But I've never seen a photo of H-alpha nebula taken with compact digital camera because of IR cut filter. The photo you can see here may not be a good one but I retouched it obstinately. It was taken at the suburbs of Capital Tokyo, without an aid of telescope and with non-reconstruct compact digital camera. Location: From the veranda of the apartment house where I live in Tokyo. Date: February 7th '2004 00:54- (JST) Camera:NIKON e5700  f206mm   Sensitivity:ISO400 Exposure(1): F5.7 7X120sec -1EV  Filtration:LPS-P1 Exposure(2): F4.1 5X300sec    Filtration:R-64 L:Composit monochromed (1) and Red of (2) R:Composit Red of (1) and (2) GB:GB of (1) WB:Sun  NR:on   Data format:RAW Portable Equatorial: Vixen GP guidepack Arranged with StellaImage4 & Photoshop 7.0 [reference] 'Astronomy Picture of the Day' on NASA

Great Orion Nebula M42 and Orion's belt
Location: From the veranda of the apartment house where I live in Tokyo. Date: December 24th '2003 02:20- (JST) Camera:NIKON e5700  f176mm  F5.0   Sensitivity:ISO400 Exposure: 140sec+3X120sec   NR:on   Data format:RAW WB:AWB   Filtration:LPS-P1 Portable Equatorial: Vixen GP guidepack Arranged with StellaImage4 & Photoshop 7.0

Pleiades  M45  and  C/2004 Q2  Comet Machholz
	Location: From the veranda of the apartment house where I live in Tokyo. Date: January 8th '2005 00:49:23- (JST) Camera:NIKON D70   AiAF Nikkor180mm F2.8D(F4)   Exposure: 9X60sec+2X90sec   Filtration:LPS-P1 WB:sun   Sensitivity:ISO800   NR:on Data format:RAW  Equatorial: Vixen SXW Arranged with StellaImage4 & Photoshop 7.0

Pleiades  M45
Location: From the veranda of the apartment house where I live in Tokyo. Date: January 11th '2005 00:30:15- (JST) Camera:NIKON D70   SIGMA APO135-400mmF4.5-5.6(400mmF8)   Exposure: 3X300sec+180sec WB:sun   Sensitivity:ISO800   NR:RAP Data format:RAW  Equatorial: Vixen SXW Arranged with StellaImage4 & Photoshop 7.0

Photo by INO, Shohta with NIKON Coolpix5700.

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