Being such a big Fan of the APOD I decided to sort-of use the same format for my first few steps into astro photography.
http://m.sheppard.net/comet
http://m.sheppard.net/orion
I plan on mounting the camea on my tracking scope for some longer exposures - but just being able to take a picture of somethign I couldn't see was very kewl.
Thanks APOD!
M@