[JonnyM]

I was inspired by a talk by an astro-photographer a few weeks ago which motivated me to see an exhibition at the Royal Observatory. Consequently, this month's theme is 'Astro-Photography'. Maybe the title should be 'Basic Astro-photography' as you don't need all the technical gubbins like telescopes for the work I want to see, indeed I've seen superb naked eye photos taken with a basic dslr and 18-55mm lens. Initially it can appear quite difficult and unobtainable due to equipment, cloud cover, light pollution etc but that's the challenge, you have a few weeks for that clear night.

As to post-production you may remove noise, dust, light pollution etc but no computer manipulated star-trails or cloned in stars.