* Astronomy

On March 19, 2011, Ala'a H. Jawad and his nephew were photographing Orion, and didn't notice they had something unusual until they looked at the pictures on the computer. You an see the result here: a streak left by a satellite, seen by accident. Ala'a looked it up, and discovered it was an Atlas Centaur booster launched on November 27, 1963! This was just days after JFK's assassination, and only a couple of years after the U.S. put a man in space. But that booster is still up there, along with hundreds of other pieces of orbiting stuff you can photograph.
The point is, it's not too hard to get pictures like these; you don't need a telescope. Just preparation, a camera, and a tripod.
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