After one year I am slowly making progress with, most recently, undertaking my first solar viewing and imaging and, with great difficulty, last week obtained my first DSO images – this time of M13 and M57.  Not the best images ever but a very satisfying achievement nonetheless.  There’s still a very long way to go, in the next six months I want to try and tackle: better alignment, computer mount control, establish auto guiding etc as a result of which I hope to better tackle some of the great features of the winter skies. This will inevitably require further purchases but, then again, it is only 141 days until Christmas!