To start off with, while I am set up as an Sidewalk Astronomer, I use the
plantets and our moon as viewing subjects, just not that many other things are
seeable threw the street lights.

But when I am set up at home or my hidden viewing area, then I mostly go for the
Deep Space objects, as they can fire up my mind and adds fuel to what I can
dream about. I don't let the knowage that it'll be a long time coming before man
goes out there, but as I look at M42, or other DSP's, my mind is far from being
planet bound, instead it's out there riding the Stellar Winds between the stars.


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"In this universe the night was falling,the shadows were lengthening
towards an east that would not know another dawn.
But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning
lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go
again."

Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars

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"Dave & Janelle" wrote in message
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It's currently stormy and snowy here (USA/CO); observing is out of the
question for a while. Here's a fun topic to kick around... what type of
observing do you like better - Solar System or deep-sky?

I'm a definite Solar System observer.

In a very real way, we can divide the Universe up into two pieces: Our Solar
System, and everything else. Or, equivalently, stuff that matters and stuff
that doesn't.




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