Welcome to these pages of pure amateur "amateur astronomy". In 2012 a very elegant photo blog saw the daylight, the Jux.com. Mid-2013 I  had two photo blogs there, astronomy.jux.com and impressions.jux.com.   The first naturally was about astronomy, while the other was my ordinary  photos, mostly from the island in the Baltic Sea where I live, the  island of Öland. Swedens counterpart to the Channel Island or maybe even more close, to Marthas Vineyard. Anyway, late 2014, Jux.com folded and I lost my two photo blogs. There are others out there, but not as  appealing as Jux. These astronomy pages is my try at re-creating some of my astronomy.jux.com's style at Wix.   
    Living in the middle of my island's only true town Borgholm (that is, it's the only place on the island having had city priviliges,  also 2 km southwest of one of Swedens first Viking towns, Köpingsvik ;-), it  is not the optimal place for Deep Sky astronomical observations, but I am a stubborn "b....d", always doing things after my own head  and often succeeding. Not only doing Deep Sky imaging in the  middle of an urban area with all it's lights, but also doing it with  the simplest type  of computerized telescope mountings, an Altitude Azimutal (AltAz), where maximum camera exposure is only 30 seconds.   
    If my results can compete with those using the more complex German  Equatorial Mounts (GEM), well, it's up to you viewers to decide. For my  part, well, I am reasonable satisfied, having a very incomplex  operation, up and running within 15 min tops, if weather permitting.  Living on this island, shielded from bad "brittish" weather by the rest of southern Sweden, I do on an average have around 50 "obs" nights   in a year, with is pretty good for Swedish conditions.   
    Öland has a knack for astronomy with its dark skies, a legacy tendered   by my local astro club, Grönhögens  Astronomical Guild (GAF). Though no longer having a club telescope site, we cooperate with our "mother" guild, the Swedish Amateur Astronomical Guild - SAAF, GAF having a very well visited member star party in end August each year at the archaeological site of the 10:th century defense castle Eketorp.  On an average, this meeting has some 35-45 participant and mostly 3 nights dark sky out of five, each year. GAF is also in the planning stages of doing whats done elsewhere  in the world, creating a map over good public places for visiting   astronomers to deploy their telescopes, awing our dark skies from August to end April.  
    Though not the cheapest hobby, since this is one where its possible to pitch in, spending less than for a mid-size iMac, a not to uncommon  product today, my hope that those interested get inspiration to try  yourselves and doing it without my mistakes. I therefore has some tips here.  
    Otherwise, enjoy my simple tries of showing whats  out there.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Lars M.