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Old 18-10-2009, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by mithrandir View Post
Quote: "Are the thousands of amateur astronomers across Australia studying the night sky in search of some higher truth or are they enjoying the equivalent of galactic trainspotting?"
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/360/stories/2009/2715156.htm
Andrew, I know what you mean - besides how many trainspotter do we know that get rained out, clouded out, dewed up, high winds, poor seeing, flat batteries, failed drives etc. I suppose in search of higher truths, you can't get much higher!

I thought the comment at the end was a bit strange (I'd never heard it before)

... I'm reminded of the epitaph of amateur astronomers 'We're not afraid of death, we've never been afraid of the dark'
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