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I can't really put it down to just one thing...
I like the quiet when observing, except when those noisy possums scare the hell out of me.
I like the travel through time and space when looking at some distant cluster and wonder if there is some one at the other end looking at me!
I like the idea that the light I am seeing was created thousands or millions of years ago and traversed the vastness of space to finally enter my eye at the end of it's journey (this is not really true, but it sounds good when I say it to those who don't know better).
I like to wonder how anything so wonderous could possibly have been made according to some plan, rather than it just IS how it IS.
I like the amazement when other people gaze through my scope and see things they never imagined existed. They may have seen pictures of the Orion Nebula or Saturn's rings...but seeing the real thing always seems to make people truly amazed.
I like having an interest that almost everyone is interested in, not many people would like to come over and have a look at a stamp collection or see my latest macrame creation.
I guess...I just LIKE it!
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