I have always like taking pictures, I think it has always been to show others what I have seen. I retired in 2015 and my son had a really cheep telescope worth $20. I looked at the moon and that was neat, not much of a telescope so in May 2021 I bought a better telescope Celestron 8SE. This was really neat, I could see so much more, it would find targets for me, just a lot more fun. Then I got a cell phone adapter for the eyepiece to take pictures, then connected my old Cannon T2I to the back of the telescope, what an improvement over the eyepiece projection. A bit later I bought a real astronomy camera, added guiding, a miniPC, a CGX mount and have progressed from their.