I tried to shoot Venus tonight through my 8" Newtonian Relfector at 306 power. (I think it was at 306.) I couldn't control the shutter speed and the Earth was turning too fast to use a tripod for the camera. This was handheld, pointing through the eyepiece, macro mode. I had forgotten to turn off the flash so I got 1/60 shutter for this and the flash went off, but I cropped those effects out. Not great but not easy to do without the right tools. (This view is inverted and upside down. I guess I could have corrected it in PS.)