Hobbies that often co-exist with Astronomy

[inertia8 (Australia)]

Radio controlled aircraft and led torches (defo doesn't coexist on the same nights!)

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by JA

Are we talkin' Airborne Laser RB?

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JA

I wish JA !!
Nah, can't lift them with a drone nor have a way to control them.
But I'm fascinated by them, amazing 'wavelengths'.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

I have had some..
Still like chess..3000 games on the phone so far. ....
Alex

I bet my phone can beat your phone!

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by RB

Retribution for "The weight begins", huh?

Yup LOL

[xelasnave]

Happy days the materials just now arrived to build my mini observatory..4 ft x 4 ft x 4ft...got to try and get it all up the stairs now... and must put the mount back to gether after a late pull down last night.
I like astronomy as it presents many challenges just to set up...
Got some black grout thought the pier would look nice in black cement.
alex

[drylander (Peter)]

Photography, faceting, workshop and car restoring though that's getting too expensive.
Pete

[blink138 (Pat)]

hmmmm, all of my hobbies are expensive
wine collecting and my hifi
pat

[Kunama]

Astro for nighttime .......
Downhill skiing, XC skiing, MTB, road cycling and Ocean Ski paddling for daytime.......

Eating and drinking in between with a couple of hours of sleep thrown in...

[dimithri86 (Dimithri)]

Stamp collecting, Photography, Drones, Woodwork, Model trains just to name a few.

[AEAJR (Ed)]

Originally Posted by Tropo-Bob

Long time ago when at school (In the Apollo, Moon-landing years) , I had many friends who were into Astronomy and had telescopes. We also played Chess (almost daily) and were all good players.

I visited some Astronomy Clubs where a sizeable minority of the membership were into flying radio-controlled aircraft.

Any readers into the above activities, or have noted any other narrow interests (not talking about drinking beer or following sport!) that other amateurs often pursue?

Astronomy

Radio controlled gliders

Bird watching (leverages my binoculars)

[JA]

All of these in various mixes in recent and not so recent times

• Photography
• Videography
• Live Music (All types mostly Classical, Jazz,Contemporary ... )
• Audio
• Rock & Mineral collecting (If I could only find them all !!!!)
• Any interesting Construction or Eng. project

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JA

[Visionary (David)]

Employing a very broad brush "Hobbies that often co-exist with Astronomy". I would wager within any Astro group, there will be a sailor, angler, bushwalker all of whom have enjoyed a dark sky.
I believe any activity that gets you under a dark sky at night will inevitably lead you into Astro stuff.

[Astrophe (John)]

Playing classical guitar (only learning), as well as audio (Hi Fi) and reading.

[MLyons (Martin)]

Flying (RC and full size) photography, astronomy, telescope-making.....

[Bart]

Off road adventure riding on my heavily modified DR 650. About to head off on a 4000 km round trip. Should be fun. Taking a pair of binos with me.

[JimsShed (Jim)]

Originally Posted by MLyons

Flying (RC and full size) photography, astronomy, telescope-making.....

Martin, you forgot to mention "collecting telescopes". That's a mighty list you have there