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Don't get me wrong - my SA100 is easily the best $150-odd I've spent in astronomy. If you'd told me six months ago that I'd be observing the emergence of forbidden [OI] lines in the thinning ejecta of a nova in Centaurus, as it happens in real time, using a tiny bit of kit I ordered from Bintel on a whim, I'd have laughed at you.
Don't you get the feeling that there's this enormous, cataclysmic cosmic event going on in our celestial backyard (I mean, it's almost on our bloomin' FLAG, for heaven's sake) and the five of us have got a ringside seat to watching astrophysical history in the making!
As you can tell, I'm excited :-)
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