Here's a view of the planet Uranus. Tonight, the planet is very near the moon and the skies are bright. This image was captured with an Orion G3 Starshoot CCD camera at the business end of an 8" Meade LX200 with a Lepus .62 telecompressor in between. This is 150 four second exposures stacked with Maxim DL. I had to quit when everything iced up.
A careful eye will see artifacts in this image caused by the glare from the nearby moon...

12″ Meade LX90 telescope; Canon EOS 20D at prime focus, single exposure.

Single exposure, Canon EOS 20D. Meade 12" LX90.

What a beautiful moon tonight ... there is a large wildfire in Chelan county, east of the Cascades Mountain Range. The smoke gives the nearly-full moon an eerie color. I got this shot tonight from my Port Orchard, Washington home. (Canon T3i, 70mm).

This is what it looks like when you are photographing M15 and a passenger jet goes through the photo …

Here is a photo of Comet C/2014 Q3 Borisov. It is currently magnitude 13.2, which makes it a very dim object in the sky. In this photo (click to enlarge photo of necessary), you can see a “fuzzy blob” near the center of the photo. That is the comet. Orion 8 Astrograph Newtonian, Baader MPCC coma corrector, Canon T3i (modified) at prime focus, f3.9, ISO 1600, 5×23 subs, 3 darks.

The Elephant’s Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.[1] The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant’s Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. Orion 8 Astrograph Newtonian, Baader MPCC coma corrector, Canon T3i (modified) at prime focus, f3.9, ISO 1600, 17×23 subs, 2 darks.

This is Messier 42 (The Great Orion Nebula), a very easy target in the constellation Orion. This time of year, Orion rises over the eastern horizon and is well into the sky by 8 p.m. (Canon T3i at prime focus on an Orion 8″ Astrograph Newtonian, Baader MPCC coma corrector, 10×15 sec subs, ISO 1600, DeepSkyStacker).

This is the first of tonight’s photos. This photo was taken at 4:24 p.m. The moon is gorgeous tonight. The current temperature is 30 degrees and falling fast. Skies look clear (not sure about transparency yet) and there is a good breeze of 12 to 15 mph. Scope is balanced – it’s the breeze I’m more worried about tonight than the cold…