http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/23/001227/Space-Photos-Taken-From-Shed-Stun-Astronomers

"On my seventh birthday my folks got me my first telescope which started my interest in astronomy, I sat for hours looking at the moon as a child. I remember pointing my scope at a bright star to the east, I put my eye to the telescope and saw Jupiter for the very first time, and I felt like I had discovered something and ran around telling everyone. I pointed a camera at the sky in my early teens, when my uncle, who was a keen amateur photographer, gave me an old SLR camera and tripod, which I did simple exposures of the constellations and experimented with star trailing."


http://www.astropix.co.uk/ps/pages/10.htm