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How about the octogenarians?
Not trying to turn this into an "I'm older than you" competition, but I just turned 81 and am still muddling along in Astrophotography, just a few valleys north of Alex on the southern Darling Downs. I follow his travails on IIS and wish him all the best.
I'm still a nerd and early adopter, with AM5, RC8, CF f4 Newt, lots of ZWO and Touptek gear, while finding lots of time to follow all the experts on Youtube.
I Remote Desktop to my obs with Nina, Siril, Graxpert etc etc. Pity my postprocessing skills are only mediocre at best. I even host a little FB astronomy group for my local village residents, to encourage them to take advantage of the Bortle 2 skies here, even if it's just with their smartphones. Starting to see some progress and hope to see some Seestar 50s pop up soon.
Funny, my family comes from Drake, next to Alex's Tabulam, and I grew up on your Lake Macquarie (Toronto), still one of my favourite places in the world.
Luckily my health is still OK, main thing I have is the occasional minor surgery to excise skin BCC's due to all that wonderful time sailing and swimming semi-naked around the Lake as a child.
1950's....Them's were the days, steam trains to school in Newcastle, VJ's on the lake, freedom to roam all day, etc, etc.
Cheers,
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