Many folks have more complex setups than I and they generally produce amazing images. I'm sort of low-tech kind of guy when it comes to astronomy. I used to use film for my astrophotography, but I've made the switch to digital completely over the past couple of years. It's just so much easier than film. There's nothing more frustrating than finding a week's worth of work is no good because it was just slightly out of focus! The 400mm APO lens can produce some really nice images if, that's a big if, I get it focused properly. The wide angle lenses are going to see more use in the coming months as I explore attaching my DSI Pro to them for wider views than I get through the scope. This allows the added advantage of letting me autoguide through the telescope while imaging through the camera. I use the Pro-II to image and the Pro to autoguide. Sadly the LPI doesn't see much use anymore. It is restricted to planetary use and sometimes not even then.

Sketching is what I think I do best, now that I've gotten a little better at reproducing nice round stars. Actually I cheat a little there. If you look at some of my older sketches here, you'll see very odd shaped stars. That's because I started out just scanning in my sketches and then reversing the colors. Then I figured out that I'd be better off just reproducing the image using Photoshop or Illustrator by starting with black background, drawing a nice white circle and then just using different size dots to represent the "stars" that I'd drawn while out in the field. I think I like it much better this way. It's a little repetative but at least the stars are nice and round like I saw them through the scope.