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Originally Posted by star1961
do many people on here study astronomy at university or are you mostly self-taught? is your knowledge base mostly in photography or do you delve further into the origins of the universe and star types etc? gravitational wave theory, string theory etc? just curious
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Self-taught. Done it for seemingly for centuries. Love it as much now as when I started as a lad with a small telescope.
I suppose it is like an illicit drug, whose only hit is to read everything you can get your hands on, apply it to discovered insights you've found along the way. You also need to get outside and look at the sky with your own eyes, acquire a 'scope of some sort, and look at everything you can.
If you have the intelligence, you can learn all about the intricacies of the science, but to me that becomes more of a chore and a job than a hobby!
The more time you delve into it the more there is to learn…
It is just as unfathomable as the universe we live in!
