[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

One of the main delights for me, in visual astronomy, is finding the object. Hopping from constellation to constellation, keeping angles and relative distances between stars in my head while looking for the object is where the fun comes in for me. Even when I get there, a faint smudge in the eyepiece isn't why I'm in the game. There are very few objects that I've seen that actually excite me visually. Finding them, however, is a lot of fun.

Sure photography is great (I plan to do lots of it) - at the end of the day I can look at pictures that will always be better than mine in books. My interest in photography is to get the BEST quality image I can. I could take a million shots of the Moon and still be looking for a better image.