Geof Lewis

I've been interested in astronomy for over 60 years, growing up under the dark skies of North Norfolk. My parents moved to Oxfordshire when I was 13, then to Surrey a few years later where I remained for nearly 50 years, so I've spent most of adult life living in much more light polluted locations. The poorer night skies combined with work and family commitments resulted in my astronomy activities being very much on the back burner until I took early retirement some 13 years ago. Since 2016 I'm now living back in Norfolk with my wife of 50 years and I've got back to astronomy with a vengeance. Primarily imaging from my own ROR observatory, I also enjoy some visual observing especially when the skies or wind make imaging impossible. I particularly enjoy planetary imaging, which in recent years has been something of a challenge from the UK, but I also like to go after DSOs with my current focus being to collect as many from the Messier list as is possible from my location. My Messier collection so far stands at 104/110, some of which are very poor quality taken from LP Surrey, so I am gradually replace those with better versions from the much darker Norfolk skies. I am beginning to run out of Messier targets that are easily accesbile from my location in order to complete the list, so that may never happen, but I'll keep trying and continue to get better versions of those that I do have.

Local societies
Norwich Astronomical Society