Hi all,
here is a question for everyone, when did your interest in amateur astronomy first begin or what was that single point in time when you decided that this is so interesting I'm hooked.
For me it all started when I was nine, we were all sitting on the verandah one summer evening (late sixties no computers and no telly) and the binoculars were on the table as mum was a keen bird watcher, so I picked them up and pointed them to the sky and it was like being hit by a truck another world just opened up in front of me. From memory it was about two weeks later dad and I went to the local camera store and I got my first telescope, a Tasco 2" Refractor and Nortons Star Atlas 1950 epoch. I'm not sure what happened to the scope but I still have the atlas.
Cheers