As per the original intent of this thread - how long have I been observing "in my current phase" - I have to say about 2 months since I bought my dob

so I'm in the under 1 year category.
However .... I have always, since a child, loved the night skies and have sepnt so much time looking up there.....
I remember the later Apollo missions (was 5 when Neil Armstrong made that "one step") .... I remember riding my pushbike to the local school oval to see "the space shuttle" fly over, I mean "The" Shuttle, first mission! (Orbit times were listed in the local paper). I remember Skylab, I remember Viking and Voyager and how excited I was to know man was truly exploring other planets, I followed Mir's dramas and the efforts to repair her, I passionately followed
Project Stardust well before she ever launched, and was much pleased to finally see her return to earth just this year after almost 7 years and 4.5 billion kilometres of travel (I submitted my name and it was engraved on the silicon wafers attached to the probe).
I remember a couple of great lunar eclipses, I remember at the age of 10 or so seeing a spectacularly bright "fireball" meteor that illuminated our yard like day - for about 2 to 3 seconds! I remember Halley's in 1986 ..... so many memories over the years.
While travelling central Oz in 1999 I walked inside Gosse Bluff - the world's largest comet impact crater, and a few days later my 2 brothers and I flew over it in a small helicopter, camera's running overtime. On the same trip I visited the Henbury Meteroite craters in NT and I now own a couple of small fragments (purchased legit, not taken from the site).
Is it possible to imagine what any of us might be remembering 20 years from now?? I can't wait to find out!