WARREN KELLER

Location: West Virginia Telescope: University of North Carolina-owned 16-inch

RCOS Ritchey-Chrétien

“A child of the 1960s – Star

Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey – I boldly went with my heroes where no man had gone before, and I never really touched down again. I began exploring the night sky at 15 years old with an eight-inch Newtonian, and I knew from the moment I received Fred Hoyle’s book Astronomy that I would someday photograph the wonders of the skies above.

“I started out using film in 1998, and then I switched to a charged-coupled device (CCD) in 2003. I am artistic by nature, so for me it’s less about the cosmology and more about the thrill of the hunt for the myriad of beautiful shapes and colours throughout the universe.”