And NOW for something completely different!
Steve W (photograher-extraordinaire)/ Michael Parnham (science fiction & fact buff) ... getta loada this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zqv7mnb?..._contentcard27
Astro~photography has made GIGANTIC leaps in recent times ... so much so, that amateurs can now obtain fascinating images of very distant nebulae - thousands of light years away.