Using your digital camera as a "telescope", picture I took of the big dipper..
 

20 seconds exposure time will bring you tons of more stars than visible to the naked eye.. pretty cool :)

http://www.feelgoodspot.com/images/stars.jpg

cool idea, gotta try this soon, but I believe there's too much light pollution in the city to get good results?!

Yeah, I could imagine so. Where I live there's 25 houses, a whore and a cow

Try not only a longer exposure but take repeated pictures each with a long exposure. Then overlay them all. You will be pleased.

Oh almost forgot you can also get telescopes you can hook your camera up to for even a better effect.

I have a cheap ass telescope I bought a couple of years ago with which I had the most insane experience..

The first day I had it I looked up at the sky and just selected a random "star" to look at, pointede the telescope at it and wow, fucking wow, I had tiny tiny Saturn right in front of me.. with rings and all... this was 100% by chance, I had no idea what I pointed it at, and this was the very first thing I pointed it at ever... what are the chances

Looked something like this :

http://www.consignforcash.com/leslies%20saturn.jpg

Do the whore and the cow cover for each other when vacations happen ?

I did something similar during the eclipse:

http://www.stuartduncan.name/lunarec...images/007.jpg

http://www.stuartduncan.name/lunarec...images/008.jpg

Very nice

gotta do this too.

Wow that would be awesome !!!

I've said for years i was gonna get a good telescope. Still haven't done it... :disgust