Born in Chester, raised first in the wirral then further south as a kid, most of his formative years were spent in rural Gloucestershire at home or at Rendcomb College. He set out to University to study Electronic Engineering at the University of Birmingham, but rapidly discovered that it wasn’t for him. He went hunting for a course involving multimedia content at Birmingham, but came up empty and ended up moving to Demontfort University in Leicester. Self confessed space exploration addict Doug Ellison is a multimedia producer by day, and founding administrator of the well respected Unmannedspaceflight.com forum by night.  Over the past 5 years he has talked to astronomy and science societies, schools, and the general public, conveying the excitement and adventure of our solar system.   As an ambasador for the amateur space imaging community, he has presented to scientists at Cornell University and the Europlanet conference.  He has written for The Planetary Report, Spacedaily.com, and has been interviewed for Planetary Radio and The Sky at Night. "I came up with unmannedspaceflight.com - not as a statement against manned spaceflight ( of which I am a supporter ) - just because that’s what it was about".