As a hobby, I also enjoy spending some nights under a beautiful dark sky.
I delight in taking (hopefully) aestetic pictures of planets and nebulae. For this, I mostly use an old 8” Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope on a motorized German mount, a simple DSRL (Canon 650D), and some slow-learned voodoo to make pictures of my favorite objects. Some of my most recent picture are made with upgraded gear (astronomy-dedicated cooled CMOS camera, narrowband filters, 10” Newtonian telescope).
Some of my best pictures are on my Astrobin page. Here are a few example:
