Did you keep any of those crater shots or did they get deleted out of shame? I still have a hard drive full of blurry Moon pictures from my own stubborn phase, and honestly, they look like someone took a photo of a ping pong ball through a dirty window. My version of AstroBob told me to stop chasing planets and learn to polar align, and I fought it for a whole year before I finally gave in. That one evening of guided nebulae made me feel like I'd been wasting my time on purpose, which I kinda was. Now I tell every newbie the same boring advice, and they ignore me just like I ignored Bob.