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I'm gonna bump this thread by Glend as I think it is worthy of more than the excellent, but relatively few responses to date. Surely you have some thoughts on where amateur astronomy is going in 2017 and beyond?
So lets be controversial and say amateur astronomy is going nowhere, beyond the millionth observation/images of M42 that's it? The Argo Navis is dead, EQ8 didn't measure up, most commercial optics that we can buy are the equivalent of the bottom of a ground coke bottle, really why bother anways there is much more interesting stuff to watch on TV. Astro clubs are hardly of any value anymore and IIS general discussion is more interesting than all the other topics combined. Maybe the classifieds will be a happy hunting ground for those (few??) of us who are intending to make 2017 a great year for amateur astro. Surely with 10,000 members we can do better than less than 25 replies. What are you doing and where, as amateur astronomers are we going in 2017?
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