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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The biggest reason I sorta lost interest was the light pollution. I have to drive for about an hour and a half to get to a good dark spot. It is the club site and it is secure and dark.
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I lived astronomy as a kid back in the late 60's going so far as to grind my own mirror and hand built tube and clock drive equitorial mount with dreams of building my own cold camera. After finishing the first mirror, I had visions of grinding a 12" cassegrain mirror set but couldn't afford the blank. Never got around to doing any AP and by the time ccd's became affordable, I couldn't handle staying up late anymore. I have a 8" SCT in the closet that hasn't seen starlight in years and at this point would prefer a smaller aperture refractor for casual planetary observations in the city. Too much trouble to get to dark skies. Had dreams of getting a cabin in the back woods and building a robotic Ritchey-Chretien 20"er for remote AP and viewing. That would be the life.