Astrophotography done in my backyard under bortle 8 urban skies in Metro Phoenix, Arizona

I dreamt of automation . . .

When I first began my astrophotography journey, I really enjoyed the struggle with learning how to focus with a bahtinov mask, learning how to center my mount on the target – initially with manual slews and finally with APT using plate solving to determine where I was pointed at and where I needed to be. […]