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What is the point of this hobby?
I really can't answer the question for myself, I don't know exactly what I was expecting, other than having always had a desire to own a telescope and to look at 'stuff'.
I have seen the trapezium of stars in the great nebulae, and looked at the moon a couple of times. I am still figuring out how to get a nice view of Jupiter, and how to get myself out of bed to look at Saturn.
However I am really curious as to which direction to head, why are people looking up into the air. Why focus the telescope in a given direction.
What is the point of looking at Jupiter more than once (with the same telescope), or looking at stars at all (why not just a star map, or use Stellarium)?
I am really curious as to what the main areas of focus (pardon the pun) are within this hobby. What is a beginner to do other than just swizzle the telescope around and look at random things? Is there a settling down into particular areas of interest within astronomy?
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