I packed up all my gear, cleaned out the observatory, put the mount in storage, etc early this year. My intention was to not have to deal with cold weather this year, and to take a long break to see if the passion might resurface. Honestly for the past couple of years I had been running out of steam; I had hundreds of completed images, from thousands of Subs, Terabytes of data, and simply found no interest in going back over the same old sky. I can hear you thinking, how can you run out of interest, targets, etc, yeah, yeah, I used to think like that. I switched over to EAA, thinking that would reduce workload and still allow me to see the important things and events, and that did the trick for awhile.
This week I actually put the mount back on the pier, because my grand children are coming for Christmas and I wanted to be able to introduce them (with their short attention spans) to the night sky. So setting up for visual only with my ED150DX, which is my last remaining scope. Does this mean I am back to the madness? No, I enjoyed the long break, and have no desire to get back to anything more serious, but it's nice that I kept something to play with when the mood strikes.
Age has alot to do with it, maybe, certainly I am more considerate of how I spend my time. There are other things I want to do as well, especially since La Nina is determined to extend the pause.
Hang on to that last scope Glen.
