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Originally Posted by Suzy
Start simple, learn and progress, and enjoy the journey it takes you on- who knows you may decide sketching and staying visual brings you delight, or making important contributions for variable star observing is a lot of fun, etc etc. There is a lot of areas in astronomy - find yourself first. 
Kind regards,
Suzy. |
Good advice there Allan
The depth and breadth of options to explore in Astronomy is huge, and I know I was surprised at some of the directions I ended up exploring - certainly not what I originally envisionaged. That's brings up another issue - IIS is such a fantastic resource that you'll always be learning new things you wouldn't have thought of yourself - as well as spending money on things you didn't expect too
If you're able to, get along to a local gathering of astronomers - the imaging guys will be doing quite different "stuff" to the visual buffs - see what gets you going....