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Hello!
Been lurking for a few weeks, thought I should say hello.
I'm in Brisbane, and hesitate to even call myself a beginner: rather I'd dearly like to get started one of these days. Spent some time staring long and hard at Jupiter through little 10x25 handheld binoculars over the last few weeks, thinking I could almost see something more than a dancing white dot.
I do wonder what events in the Brisbane area might be suitable by way of introduction, and whether yet another expensive hobby means I have to sell the second car. I see a lot of advice to start with binoculars on a tripod, though I wonder what the most cost-effective way to see detail on objects within the solar system might be. And I guess how far one has to go to see an detail on Jovian moons...
But mostly, this is just "hi". I'm interested in the subject from a few angles, having always regretted not pursuing astrophysics at Uni but maintaining a dilettantish interest. From what I've seen here, there's a broad spectrum of folks with similar interests, so doubly "hello!".
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