My name is David Campbell, and I'm a 21 year old student from Didcot in Oxfordshire, UK. I am currently just finishing my third year studying Astrophysics at the University of Hertfordshire.

I have been interested in many aspects of space for as long as I can remember, and in 2005 I bought my first telescope. It was only a small cheap one, a 76mm Newtonian reflector, but the views it gave me of Saturn, Jupiter and the surface of the Moon soon got me hooked.
I attempted some imaging with a small analogue board camera but the results weren't great.

In 2006 I bought a second hand Skywatcher 150mm Newtonian reflector which was being offered at a good price. It vastly improved the range of what I could view, and is still my largest telescope today.

Up until this point I had only been a casual observer, but that all changed in early 2007 when I bought my first 'proper' imaging equipment, a Phillips Toucam webcam and drive motors for my mount. As an electronics-enthusiast, I soon modified the webcam to enable it to take long exposures. This meant I was finally able to image deep sky objects, as well as greatly improve my attempts at the planets and the Moon.

Over the next year I saved up to buy more equipment; a digital SLR camera, several filters, and two smaller refracting telescopes. As my imaging arsenal grew, so did my enthusiasm for astronomy and imaging the night sky.