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Good question Trev...(is it ok to call you Trev?) For me, it’s many things...The main reason being I am a dreamer. Like Analog6 I grew up in the country as a young fella and it’s near impossible to avoid the stars when checking the animals or rounding up the wayward ones.
My fascination started very young...I was born in 1969 & possibly due to the fact that humans had only just landed on the moon & electronic gadgetry set to change the lives of the average family, I grew up watching a heap of sci-fi & loved it.
Hubble really did impact me & have to agree with Humayun there. It made me feel closer to the stars and seeing clouds like that in space really opened up my imagination. Not sure if you still use an atlas called Jacaranda at school but I used to love looking at the Solar System inside the front cover. During the 70s albeit the late seventies, I think mum used to let me know whenever another Nassa probe was doing its thing. I still got News paper articles from when a probe took a new pixilated shot of some planet or new discovery & I collected older news paper articles of the mooned missions. My science teacher never used to smash my head into the table like my maths teacher did...I always looked up to my Science teachers for that. They just seemed so much more ... mmmmmmm.......Chemically balanced. I guess what I am saying, is the space era had a big influence.
Lastly Trev...sometimes when things get a bit tough on Earth & I need some space, what better way to chill out than grab a scope and take a trip above and beyond. With all the info we have now available, the destinations just keep getting better & better + you really don’t need fancy equipment to go there.
I Just Love Staring Into Space at times...even without a telescope...I know the answer is out there somewhere & have the notion it’s more like a cross between an equation and some aliens misconception of spirituality spawn on some distant planet...But it’s ok, I’m not completely mad yet. It’s when you start thinking like that, you drop the scope and become like a walking antenna...Just don’t take too much in at once...need filters for that. LOL
Can’t wait till the sun sets (imagine weird sci-fi music about now)...Have to go to work...Have a good day Trev
Dave
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