This web site of mine has been going now for over 15 years.I only put information on it that may be useful to other potential amateur astronomers generated from My own experience.The examples are typical of what you can do from a totally light polluted site using broadband filters.If you are reading this , have bought the telescope and pointed it at the night sky and can not see or find the object that the advertising hype told you you should see then please do not give up the hobby in exasperation a lot can be achieved.All of the telescopes that you see advertised in the magasines are missing one piece of english in the advert and that is "This telescope only works best from a Dark Sky Site".Most of us have to work for a living have a family to look after and so on and are not particularly rich.This is an expensive hobby and you do need to get your wallet out to get results and there is no way around that.The reason for that is that there is very little in the hobby that is mass produced enough to warrant a low price other than web cams.If as most of us you live in or near a city then you do not live in a dark sky site and in England that is true for most of us.The nearest dark sky site for me is sixty miles away. The only practical way of using one for me is to have a second home in such an area.The weather conditions in the UK are so unpredictable that driving there and expecting to get an observing run would only happen for me for one time in an entire year. At my home site I am lucky to get twenty observing nights a year with only two of those on average that are perfect. My site has the light from the whole of the west midlands,I get lasers over the sky from the local merry hill site,I get police helicopters investigating me in the middle of the night using million candle power lights.The main aircraft highway for airliners is overhead and a few miles to the east of me.The main atlantic jet stream comes straight in over wales and into the west midlands over my head from the west causing cloud cover for most of the year.Most neigbours have 500watt security lights in their gardens going on and off due to the local cats.These cats use my observatory roof as a "pee" point.The earlier neighbour who has moved now behind me has left me a pine tree 30 ft high deliberately put behind my observatory blocking my south eastern view as she thought my scope could look directly through walls and curtains somehow. My site is surrounded by buildings that cause heat shimmer problems and also limit the field of view.If you have not got any of this think yourself lucky.The best observing time for me is from 2am in the morning onwards for up to two hours.I do this by sleeping from 10pm ,this sleep period is enough to cover the hour to two hours observing so that next day I do not feel tired when going to work. I find that if I observe up to midnight or 1 am I can not cope with work properly the next day. Using this rule you do not have to be an insomniac to get the best out of the hobby.I have only kept on with the hobby and got the best out of it because there has always been something to strive for. If you get everything in a hobby quickly you soon get bored and give it up.Another point is ease of use , if you set up a simple observatory with kit partially set up or permanently set up that is easy to go out and use then you will never find excuses not to use it.Plan ahead as much as possible using sky maps.I have found that CCD imaging has been the most rewarding investment as far as a site like mine is concerned as I can see things with the imagers that are not possible by direct sight. Like me when ever you get the chance observe from a dark sky site do so for the sheer thrill and experience of doing it and forget the electronic gismos.