So, who is Grant Privett? For those understandably desperate to know, I am an amateur astronomer currently based in Wiltshire, UK. Not exactly Mauna Kea or La Palma, but pretty good for southern England, which is just as well as my main observing interests are deep-sky.Currently, I am working as a physicist - specialising in image processing of various sorts - but I have in the past been employed as a professional astronomer, a programmer and a real rocket scientist (great fun). Increasingly, I find myself writing articles for magazines - which is interesting, though the deadlines always seem to fall on clear nights. To make matters even less clear, I have written a couple of books.One is a guide for interesting things to observe in the deep sky at different times of the year, while the other is a software agnostic guide to how to process images. I deliberately didnt recommend or concentrate on any particular package because by next year something else might be the best. The principles of data reduction do not change though...Anyway, I hope you enjoy the books.Carpe noctem.