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Nick James
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That is very sad news. I remember seeing Terry and one of his early cameras at an Exhibition Meeting in the early nineties. I bought an early SX and was astonished by its capabilities. Terry was always incredibly helpful.

My first light with the SX was on 1994 September 1. The image of M57 doesn’t look much now but it was a revelation then. The chip was 510×256 pixels, the pixels weren’t square and the field of view was tiny but the sensor was much more sensitive than film and there was no messing around with horrible chemicals afterwards.

Terry led the way in the UK and changed my (astronomical) life completely.