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Great thread Alex - OK I will play...
The image that inspired me back in high school (too many years ago) was a colour picture of the horse head nebula by none other than David Malin that I came across in a book back then, I thought it was just so fascinating that there was so much colour and forms out there in our universe. Move on to a few years back, a friend I met sailing, told me about his telescopes and got me interested in making astronomy a practical hobby, so I set about collecting second hand gear from near and far to give it a go. Once I finally accumulated the gear required to give imaging a go, it was important to me that the first object I tried was the Horse Head Nebula. The first attempt once I had everything set to go, I got one sub and the Canon 300D battery failed. I had just got it and charged it up, but alas, the battery was stuffed so session 1 didn't count. After procuring a new battery I set about trying a second time. No live view in the 300D so trying to focus on the tiny little screen was a task in itself. Anyway, to make a long story short, below is really my first image.
It was (and still is) significant time and image for me.
Cheers,
Bruce.
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