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Hi David
After reading replies to your tread I would like add few things to what I written previously.
I don’t care how the system or other people classify what I do in Astronomy or other endeavours of life. I do it because I want to do it and that’s good enough for me.
My view on any “system” (be it political, scientific or whatever) is extremely sceptical as to system motives and ability to present unbiased view of issues under such system jurisdiction. This view is based on my experience and on the recorded history. To put it in nutshell, if World scientific body decides that something works this way, it is not necessary so. The history is full of examples of theories that (after due peer reviews) were completely wrong. And the theories that has been conceived to suit political or economical pressures. At same time I recognize that such a systems are necessary to maintain orderly progress.
As far your comment about the learning I do try to learn more about Astronomy. I have listen to lectures Prof. Richard Pogge that I downloaded from Web and I think it is very good that some Universities make their lectures available on Web. I regularly read articles about Astronomy and follow it up, if possible. Higher maths that’s other story. When I start reading maths textbook it takes me about ten minutes to fall asleep.
My “research” or better, lets call it data collection has specific aims. To compile statistic of magnitude, speed, duration of visibility and direction of meteor images captured. Ultimate achievement would be to capture image of meteor originating from outside of solar system (if such a beast exist). Or to help someone to find meteoroid with captured image of it. Later on I want to add directional microphone (and another computer) to capture sound of larger meteors. As I said above, I don’t care if it is real science, data collection or just having fun.
Finally I want to say that I very much agree (from my own experience)
with your comments about some scientists being raw amateurs in endeavours other then their main field of study
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