I took a break

Dado said:
My longest standing hobby is..........GUITAR PLAYING!! Which make sense since I'm hear. But, my second longest hobby came along only a few years later. My Dad got me a telescope that I had been begging for. That hobby stuck and while I have never made optics, I have built quite a few telescopes. My kid ended up loving music and we mostly did that when he was young, but he mostly hated the astronomy and I suspect he still does. You have to actually go outside at night and hand around to do astronomy and the boy likes nature........outside and him not actually in nature, but rather inside. So I got out of the asto habit despite having a lot of stuff. I'm probably going to redo a couple of scopes and sell one big one, and go back to astronomy.
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Couldn't be a better time to look up.
There is a event coming a Nova happens about every 80 years, supposedly it can be seen with no telescope that is if the clouds alow it.
 
ibmorjamn said:
Couldn't be a better time to look up.
There is a event coming a Nova happens about every 80 years, supposedly it can be seen with no telescope that is if the clouds alow it.
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The only problem I have is that telescopes are a lot like guitars. If you have not used them in a long while there is a lot of work to be done to get them going again.
 
Aynirar27 said:
I’m very jealous of you guys. I have a big fascination with astronomy and cosmology, but it’s just absorbing as much info as possible at the moment. No practical skills at all.

I do have access to a killer observatory and telescope (for an amateur) but I’ve yet to learn the ins and outs of it. Hopefully this summer I will get a chance to get my feet with it. I’ve been helping greasing all the tracks and whatnot to keep it moving smoothly.


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Cool I didn't know you were cosmopolitan or cosmotoligist. That's hair and nails. Lol
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I'd love to start amateur celestial photography as a hobby, but there's so much light pollution where I live, that I doubt that any photos would actually turn out.
 
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