I have always wanted to have a go at Astrophotography. My only worry was always the cost of the equipment. So luckily last month I started to see YouTube videos popping up about the Seestar S50 smart telescope, which was a lot cheaper. Basically a small unit with lots of features that allowed me to shoot deep sky targets via an App on my phone. What more could be simpler than pointing at an object and letting the telescope do all the work. Taking multiple images and stacking them into one file that you can then edit. What a thrill, my first beginner image was of the Orion Nebula and then I started moving onto Galaxies, Star clusters and other Nebula. Seestar lets you shoot the moon and the sun and comes with a solar filter. Now the only problem living in the UK is you don’t seem to get a lot of clear skies so even though I have had the telescope for a month I have only photographed around 8 images. I process all the images using a free software package called Siril. Then I further develop it in Photoshop and Lightroom. What an absolute joy to see the cosmos and realising we are a small particle of dust in an ever expanding universe.