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I remember being woken up by my Dad to see Halley's comet in 1987, and I bought my first telescope 7 or 8 years later. It was a 60mm tasco - it had a pretty rubbery mount so it was kind of difficult to use and I didn't get very far with it. I lived out of town though, so I was able to get pretty familiar with the night sky.
Year 12 and uni sort of got in the way, and I always had an interest but lacked money (to buy a telescope with) or a car (to take said non-existant telescope out of the city) so I never really pursued it.
I finished a masters degree last year and my reward to myself was a 12" dob - very happy with the purchase. I have always been kind of fascinated by astrophotography and looked into it wayback... it seems like it's gotten a lot easier to break into compared to the days of film and SLRs.
I'm toying with the idea of getting into it, but I do want to get to know the sky visually first. The thrill of finding that mag. 11 faint fuzzy hopefully won't get old any time soon.
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