Following 2015 , 2016 and then again 2017 that had many distractions with travel and POVG volunteering I again had hopes of a renewed focus in 2018.

Aims for 2018 are again to use New Moon dark sky opportunities at Perth Observatory or elsewhere to try some wide-field milky way shots as well as more faint nebulous objects.

I continued to have hopes, not much progressed in the last 4 years, to try some mosaics and some HDR images in order to challenge me to improve my Photoshop skills and possibly even have a look at PixInsight, that is now an an entrenched Astrophotography software toolkit item.

Later in the year I purchased a 1970's 200mm f/4 Pentax SLR lens and Canon EOS adapter as an inexpensive way to try some wider field imaging.

I continued my involvement with Perth Observatory's Volunteer Group (POVG) for Perth Observatory's public outreach programmes including coordinating the 4-person private 'star adoption' tours and involved in the Training of new volunteers with reference material and hands on training for equipment.

The year ended with my being made redundant from my work as an Enterprise Architect at Racing and Wagering WA after 32 years (15 contract and 17 direct).

Unless stated otherwise, images are from my home location in Willetton, 12 Km south of the centre of Perth, Western Australia, though I used this far less now as it is unsuitable for faint objects using one-shot colour DSLR.

My favourite shots can also be found on AstroBin http://www.astrobin.com/users/scottastrophe