My colleague Johan Fynbo and I recently purchased a small portable telescope called "Seestar S50" which makes astrophotographing so easy it almost feels like cheating. This is an image of the spiral galaxy M51, or the "Whirlpool Galaxy", taken from a dark-ish location in Jylland, Denmark.
The exposure time is 20 minutes, and the field of view is roughly 0.5 degrees a across (the size of a full moon).
