[xelasnave]

Well I guess we really dont need another section but what is apparent is the beginners in this section are producing wonderful images such that it is hard to class them as beginners really.

When I started if I could get an out of focus blob I was happy...but to see the excellent images that appear here daily one must wonder how off putting that may be for anyone starting out.

I think the thing for those folk wondering if they should post given the excellent images now being posted here is not to be put off and fail to show your initial efforts.

I recall my first widefield I posted on a now defunct "Astoromy daily" I was so inept..I used auto focus and my stars were the size of dinner plates but I was just so happy with that images which was horrible in retrospect. But we all start at a point of inadequacy. ..some first images here now look like they are the product of years of effort ..they are that good.


So if you are "lurking" here please dont be afraid to post your first attempts no matter how bad they may be..to post will always get praise, not only for me, but often members may help to guide you just a little.
These comments should be viewed as efforts to help and never taken as some sort of put down. ..no one here is out to denegrate first efforts.

The key is not to let these beginners make you feel you need to get better before you post something.

So please if you are starting please share your results.

Posting your image can be very helpful for your journey.

And to all here I find it wonderful that folk are sharing their results...makes me feel inadequate when I think of my journey ...which has only after ten years is just starting☺.

So post post post...I want to see more folk posting images taken with a hand held phone of the Moon out of focus ...

AND a special mention to Outcast who slips in a first shot that is a pearler and wonders if he is doing ok...well yes you are doing ok..tead exceptional.. but I hope that you have not scarred off folk just starting..you could have at least put up something with prominent star trails and out of focus star trails that showed some problems rather than hit the deck almost perfect☺

So please come forward and post your first stuff and know that no one here wants to do anything more than help.
Alex