How hard can it be really

When I first thought about getting into Astrophotography I thought "How hard can it be?", just get a telescope whack a camera on there and away you go.  How wrong was I, the image below shows the components involved in what is considered to be a reasonably basic imaging set-up.  Two elements the call-outs don't show are the comma corrector and light pollution filter that sit in front of the camera.

I went down the remote control route after one very cold night outside, the notebook screen iced over, not just outside but inside too, when it thawed out I was expecting a puff of smoke when I switched it on for the first time.

The wireless joystick I have to admit was just for the hell of it, but never fails to impress if someone calls round to take a look see.  Hell, if it wasn't over engineered where'd be the fun in that :-)