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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
I was a bit curious about how many hours I have put into imaging. I can only count the hours I have used on my website, not the hours I have spent driving fixing up gear, servicing equipment, or the subs I have ditched. So I have counted 2298 hours (nearly 96 days). I think I have ditched about 20% more hours, which is about 459 hours. I think I put in quite a few more prior to automation, but don't imagine it would be more than 500 hours. This is not to mention the hours I have put into planetary imaging, which I think is well in excess of 4000 hours. Or does any of this include the years before hand with film.
It is surprising how many hours I have put in to my hobby. 
How many hours have you put in so far?  |
With those stats Paul, all up, you have had the 'shutter' open for approx 6 months
Seriously, Credit due.
I could only roughly add up what I did back at my dark sky obs, there a few times a year for 3-4 nights 4-5 yrs, so about 40 nights - 10 for cloud nights = 30 nights x average 8 hrs per night = 240hrs, through a guided scope.
A stab in the dark for Planetary, say 50 hrs over 5-6yrs, then wide field on a tracker, another 50hrs,
Soo reckon a safe estimate with out including the 4,000 hrs trying
would be around 350hrs ?
HavagoodN