A collection of images from the first 5 months of the year

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Friends and family have been wondering what I have been up to recently and asked for some images from my new observatory.

I collected the nicest 10 in this twitter thread 

I am all too conscious that these are the beginning of a journey, and there is a long way to go to emulate the masters on SGL. I see the flaws, but friends and family have enjoyed and praised them. It gives you confidence. And actually, reviewing them, they are not bad for a shakedown season with new equipment. I am pretty pleased with what I achieved and look forward to improving.

We often beat ourselves up over noisy backgrounds, poor focus, guiding problems, colour issues and so on. Sometimes it takes the inexpert eye to remind us just how amazing it is to be able to produce such images from our back gardens.