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Old 11-04-2010, 10:44 AM
rally
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Thanks for sharing Bojan.

Seems to me like a wonderful way to introduce prospective newcomers to this aspect of the hobby without all the initial pain and suffering.

Try it and then if you like it "buy it" later !

Everyones interests, budgets, abilities and level of dedication etc are different - this sort of service caters for those with limited budgets, skills, dedication etc and also offers something to do on those sometimes long stretches of bad weather for those that could otherwise be doing it themselves.
To set up for any particular aspect of astronomy costs dollars, time and effort - often in large chunks of any or all of them - trying something can be hard without taking the plunge head first.

I think the definition of the term amateur astronomy is becoming more difficult to define in any precise or even meaningful way - it has blurred into to so many things at so many levels, bordering on professsional in some areas and diversified across so many quite distinctly different fields.

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