All my imaging is and has been for several years taken from my own property. About the same as everybody I started by setting up every night and re-aligning when I wanted to take an image. I drilled receptors into the concrete to take the tripod feet so that I would have the basis every time for reasonable alignment to the pole but the continual setup, take down and storage of equipment proved tiresome. The access to a dark site within my area is almost an impossibility with the odd trip to a darker site out of the question during Holiday season. So, having a reasonably dark garden area, I installed a roll off roof observatory which was and still is a total game changer. All my imaging is taken from there. In my home office I also have a dedicated photographic printing setup. To complete the whole process from planning the shot through to printing the result is total satisfaction.

I have a number of imaging setups that I  use. For Luna and Planetary I use a Skymax 180 pro Mak-Cass with a ZWO ASI294 MC Pro as my first-choice imaging camera. My deep space setup is a 203mm Ritchie-Chretien with the same ASI294 MC-Pro but using an ASI 290 MC as the guide camera. This 2nd camera also doubles as an image taker when I need it. Both setups are now mounted on an iOptron CEM 60 Mount in preference to the original HEQ5Pro. The deep space guide scope is an 80mm 328 focal length refractor. I also occasionally use a tripod mounted 102mm 600mm focal length refractor and have recently purchased an 80mm triplet refractor. I also now use an ASI2600MC-Pro camera.

Observatory extention completed 2022