don4l

On 10/11/2018 at 20:26, ollypenrice said:

Within my own lifetime this would probably have been the best M42 ever taken. AP has made pretty incredible progress.

Olly

So true.  One must have huge respect for amateurs who took good astrophotos on film.

My first image was taken with a 35mm SLR.  It took over a week to get the developed photos back.  It was a photo of Saturn, however I had no idea about image scale, FOV or focal length.   These days, if I can get my stars that small I am pleased!

I immediately bought one of those modern Digital SLRs and was able to learn about my mistakes much more quickly.

That's beautiful.