I also like to take pictures of things much further away from the lens than the designers intended. That’s factually untrue, as most lenses can focus at or even beyond infinity, but it has nice symmetry with the previous wording so I’m keeping it.
The night sky is beautiful, but very hard to see through the hazy skies of Las Vegas, the city that took the concept of light pollution as a personal challenge. It’s only through large quantities of careful imaging and heavy post-processing that I’m able to see most stars at all. Some day I’ll get to a proper dark site…