The night sky has always fascinated me. I certainly recall, aged about three, being pushed home in a baby buggy and watching the night sky for flying saucers. The full moon sailing behind clouds gave me the willies! My dad prepared smoked glass to watch the solar eclipse of June 1954 and I collected an astronomy series of PG Tips (tea) picture-cards in the mid '50s. I could recognise the main constellations before I was 10 and I used my great-grandfather's pre-1908 Galilean binoculars to pick out the details. In the mid '60s, and after joining the BAA (lapsed 1980's!), I became a keen moon observer with a home-made 6" Newtonian
I now have a 127mm Maksutov-Cassegrain and a digital camera after many years of using slide film