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Thanks everyone, pretty stoked with the win. I’m a bit numb about it to be honest........humbled and in a little disbelief actually.
In all honesty though credit goes to many of the people who have commented on this and other threads I’ve posted on in the past.
The learning experience this forum provides is amazing.....the support and patience I’ve received freely from people who in reality are strangers to me in real life has allowed me to get to the point I am at today in my Astro journey.
I’ve had comments on pictures I’ve posted which at the time I thought were overly harsh because I thought the pic I posted was good.....but what those comments did was point out obvious floors I had which needed to be worked on. Every negative was a learning opportunity for me, every positive one was encouragement.
I need to especially say thanks to Mickoid......Mike is an old mate of my brother in law who came to visit my place after I bought it when he heard I had an old decommissioned observatory here (The former commercially operated Macedon Ranges Observatory).
I’d had no previous experience in astrophotography and was merely an observer that night. When he came he showed me some pictures he had taken on his phone and I was blown away by what I saw....that started my passion. A week later I sent him a pic I had taken of the Milky Way through a DSLR.....I thought it was good, but he tweaked the processing and stretched it to reveal things I had never seen before.........from that moment on I was hooked.
Overall though, as I said earlier, THIS community here is an amazing resource and I thank you all for the patience you have shown both me and others who are just starting their journey.
I think what my win shows is that the most expensive equipment isn’t always needed to produce a good photo. I have an eq6 I tuned myself, the rest of the equipment I own is second hand, purchased here on ISS. My dew strap for gods sake is a beer keg warmer connected to a light dimmer switch I had sitting in the shed!!!
Thanks everyone for the positives.......
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