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I think it becomes a problem when so many hours are poured into it. Astro photography is a very time consuming thing and good results are a little hit and miss for a miriad of reasons, and just when you think you've got on top of the problems ... think again. So its a fairly big conviction one takes to stay in it and happy. Most of Australia has had rain and cloud for, well, almost a year now ... and so we have been doing other things at night. Some will naturally now start enjoying the difference, whatever that is and at the same time contemplate, and certainly part of that thought process is going to be rehashing the setup process the alignment, the imaging, the tear down and put it all away. All for results, as I mentioned earlier, that are hit and miss.
The notion of giving it a rest for awhile seems pretty natural to me ... just dont sell all your stuff immediately. If you havent got any inclination in a year or two .. then perhaps it is time to move on .. its going to take that long at least before the dollar decreases in value and all this telescope stuff is worth some thing anyway.
I keep my interest in it by keeping it at bay. I keep my interests as a mixture because I know if any one of them starts to take the lions share of the time then it will be the one that eventually will become so so and likely to fall of the radar completely ... but thats only my lot, Im sure others are different.
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