A long-standing interest of mine. Even though I'm plagued by city lights and poor weather, on the occasional night, it all comes together and the magic is re-kindled.

Here are my experiences of:

      TELESCOPES  - How I built a 6 inch Dobsonian, and my 4 inch Cat.  Details of a home-built Equatorial Platform on this page.

      ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY - Using conventional cameras and film.

       CCD STUFF - Web camera modifications for astro-work. A list of web-cams is here,  Links to software for web-cams and   - long exposures from both a Philips Vesta  web-cam  and a modified 1004 EXview HAD CCD camera.

       GALLERY - Astro-imagery, these are thumbnails but they expand to larger images.

        LINKS -  Software, suppliers, telescope and accessories construction, and web-sites are here.

Member of -     Quickcam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group

You can e-mail me at (sorry, you'll have to type it in).

 Last updated - 14 February 2008