Time well spent

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #1 15-05-2009, 08:01 AM

How many hours per year do you devote to Astronomy?
Including time spent on Astro forums.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #2 15-05-2009, 08:11 AM

I did a rough estimate and scared myself.

cruiser (Brett) · #3 15-05-2009, 08:17 AM

Having been in the hobby for less than a year the hours are starting to rack up. Although I only selected 0-500 I'm sure the next 12 months will change that

I must say with sydneys cloudy nights over the last few months most hours have been spent on IIS. But thats not a bad thing anyway

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Brett

spacezebra (Petra) · #4 15-05-2009, 08:32 AM

Good question JJJ

Lets see 8 765.81277 hours in a year

Work 1536

Sleep

2548

Astronomy 4681.81277

Eating? Its included in work and astronomy totals.

Cheers Petra d.

Alchemy (Clive) · #5 15-05-2009, 08:38 AM

hey its melbourne, its either cloudy, smokey, windy, foggy and just very occasionally fine , id have to go 0-500 that allows almost 2hrs per day

Robh (Rob) · #6 15-05-2009, 09:27 AM

I've cut back!

Hard to say. Definitely over 1000 hours.

Regards, Rob

h0ughy (David) · #7 15-05-2009, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

How many hours per year do you devote to Astronomy?
Including time spent on Astro forums.

mmmm lets see

say 6 hours a day 7days a week

to be conservative

h0ughy (David) · #8 15-05-2009, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spacezebra

Good question JJJ

Lets see 8 765.81277 hours in a year

Work 1536

Sleep

2548

Astronomy 4681.81277

Eating? Its included in work and astronomy totals.

Cheers Petra d.

LOL i see there is no time for Dave

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #9 15-05-2009, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h0ughy

mmmm lets see

say 6 hours a day 7days a week

to be conservative

That's about how I figure it too Dave.

Even so, I feel I'm just not putting enough time and effort in. There's so much to learn, always something new happening. I love it.

pgc hunter · #10 15-05-2009, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alchemy

hey its melbourne, its either cloudy, smokey, windy, foggy and just very occasionally fine , id have to go 0-500 that allows almost 2hrs per day

exactly. I get about 20 hours of observing per year

Robh (Rob) · #11 15-05-2009, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pgc hunter

exactly. I get about 20 hours of observing per year

Now that would be annoying!

Were we suppose to include telescope viewing time in our estimate?
I'll have to recalculate!

Rob

wavelandscott (Scott) · #12 15-05-2009, 10:48 AM

Not as much as I'd like but I reckon at least 10% of my total time is spent in some sort of "astro" interest (not enough observing)...like others family, work and sleep account for the bulk of the rest.

If you look at percentage of "free time" it would be a much higher percentage.

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #13 15-05-2009, 11:14 AM

i just added it up ...

i need to get out more often

rogerg (Roger) · #14 15-05-2009, 12:20 PM

It depends how I add it up...

Hours my telescope is collecting starlight ... about 1,700/year probably.

Hours I'm out there with it ... about 300 hours/year.

Hours I'm out in the country with my portable setup ... less than 100 hours/year.

It's the 300 which makes me feel like I don't do much astronomy, I would like to raise that number

Baddad (Marty) · #15 15-05-2009, 12:24 PM

Hey All,

I' ve only been active in astronomy for approx' 20 weeks. Total time 470 hrs.

My other hobbies take up a lot of time as well.

Work is interfering with my hobbies.

Cheers Marty

Glenhuon (Bill) · #16 15-05-2009, 12:42 PM

Normally about 5 - 10 hours a week, but being unemployed at the moment

, 3-4 times as much over the last few months.
Astronomy is probably saving me from being bored to death.

Bill

TrevorW · #17 15-05-2009, 01:08 PM

It's proportional to the decline in my other nighttime activities as I grow older

Kevnool (Kev) · #18 15-05-2009, 01:46 PM

lotsa time really, even when i,m at work i think astronomy.
Cheers Kev.

pgc hunter · #19 15-05-2009, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robh

Now that would be annoying!

Were we suppose to include telescope viewing time in our estimate?
I'll have to recalculate!

Rob

I was probably a bit hasty with that number, due to my hatred of Melbourne weather fogging my mind and memory.

I'd say I'm at the eyepiece probably 150-200 hours a year. The scope collects dust for the remaining 8560 hours

kinetic (Steve) · #20 15-05-2009, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baddad

Work is interfering with my hobbies.

Cheers Marty

Ditto!

I think Jeanette nailed the topic also:
Time well spent. I don't even bother quantifying it

Steve