September turned into one of my busiest months yet for astrophotography. Whenever the Welsh weather gave me a clear enough window in the evenings, the DWARF 3 was outside in the garden pointed upwards. Over the course of the month I photographed everything from planetary nebulae and vast stellar nurseries to an open star cluster, our nearest large galactic neighbour and, of course, the Moon. One of the things I continue to enjoy about the DWARF 3 is its ability to make deep-sky photography remarkably accessible. Many of these objects are either extremely faint or completely invisible to the naked eye from my garden, yet by accumulating a succession of exposures the telescope gradually teases structure and colour out of what initially appears to be an empty patch of sky. By the end of September I had built up quite a collection. 8 September – The Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 • Caldwell 27 • Sharpless 2-105 I started the month with the Crescent Nebula that is in the constellation of Cyg...