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Old 06-03-2014, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Wavytone View Post
3. Upto the mid 1980's, keen amateurs with the right gear could make minor contributions to astronomy. That is pretty much finished now, thanks to the technological advances on several fronts.
Got to pull you up on that one - Australian amateur astronomers are world leaders in research and discovery. We are somewhat drowned out in the noise of a millon astrophotographers taking the same photos of the same objects, but we're very much alive
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