The "up yours" nebula by Hubble from Earth orbit and by me
from the surface of the Earth with a 6" Apochromatic refractor.

Using a 6" aperture scope with a focal length of just 1300mm, superb
optics as well as high precision tracking and autoguiding really help,
the average guide errors during this 50min exposure were +/- 0.3 arc sec.

The image on the right is an extreme enlargment from this full frame image:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/94204109/original

Here is a comparison with a 2.2m and a superb 20" ground based telescope:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/109153793/original