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New here
Hi All,
Just like to introduce myself and say "Hello" from Newcastle.
I'm here "accidentally" (in the nicest possible way). I was browsing through photography and electronics magazines at the library and spotted some Australian Sky and Telescope issues on the same shelf which revived a very long standing interest. I then started doing some serious research and found my way here.
I owned a Tasco scope about 30 years ago and eventually gave it away to a friend (since either it wasn't very good or I didn't know how to get the best out of it.) More recently, I've been occasionally downloading sky charts and trying to make sense of what I was looking at with the naked eye.
My other relevant interests are photography and robotics/microcontrollers and have been a programmer for more than 30 years. It didn't take long to realise, however, that astrophotography is probably going to be very expensive.
So my current thinking is to buy a 10" dob and just start to learn to observe in the good old fashioned way.
This site is clearly an excellent resource. Thank you all for what I've learned here so far.
Paul.
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