Just because you don't own a high-end camera doesn't mean you can't take great astrophotos.

By Sean Walker

IT'S A LOVELY EVENING and there's a beautiful sight in the west. Set into a darkening twilight sky is a thin crescent Moon next to a bright planet. But the only camera you own is a small point-and-shoot digital model. To capture scenes like this, you'll need to you out and buy an expensive digital SLR (the kind with interchangeable lenses), right? Not so fast!

Read the rest of this article in the May/June issue of Australian Sky & Telescope.