Paddy,
Currently, I probably manage about five or six visual observing sessions per year with a 12 inch Newt./Dobsonian. The interest is probably not there to pursue it very regularly, as I did for 26-27 years.
I am fortunate enough, about one month from every two, to be able to spend 5 hours every day thinking about nothing else apart from galaxies , and this has to be my focus.
The other month out of the two, I am usually studying "dirt"(invertebrates in the soil) or practicing my other scientific hobbies..... such as looking for the earliest fossil evidence of multicellular life.
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