The Impossible Photograph

After the presentation at our astronomy meeting tonight, we went outside the planetarium and set up some of our telescopes to look at the stars.  It was a bit hazy, so there was some difficulty in finding star clusters and nebulae, but we found some.  I noticed John and Gordan using this home-made telescope from the 1960's because they were silhouetted against the planetarium building in the background.  When I lifted my toy camera up, they were not visible on the screen in the back, because it was so dark.  So I set the ISO at 6400 and tried a few frames.  The camera came up with an exposure of 1/3 second which is a little long for a camera not on a tripod.  But it worked, and no one was more surprised than I was.