Covey32
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/09/04
Posts: 1065
Loc: Georgia
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Hank
12.5" Mag1 Portaball
Meade SN6 Schmidt Newtonian
Homebuilt 8 inch F5 Newtonian
Skywatcher 6" F8 Achro Refractor
Antares/Vixen 120mm F8.3 Achro Refractor
Intes 6" Mak
Celestron ED80 Refractor with Lunt 50mm HA
25 pounds of eyepieces
Ioptron Mini-Tower
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JimW
professor emeritus
Reged: 08/31/04
Posts: 696
Loc: Mansfield, Texas
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I'm 56. I started out with a Celestron Firstscope 90 refractor in 1983.
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Jim Walsh
18" Obsession UC #1 AN/SC
SV90T (Stardust Blue)
DM-6 mount (on order)
PST
Leupold Wind River 8x42
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jtpowers
more clever in the first place
Reged: 11/03/05
Posts: 1024
Loc: Cambridge, MA
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Radiowave news of my birth reached Vega 9 years ago, and the congratulatory reply should arrive here in another 17 years, when I will be 52.
Anyone read/seen Contact?
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Taylor
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 07/10/05
Posts: 765
Loc: Owasso, OK
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22 year old student. Gonna be a student for a loooong time.
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fr33dom
journeyman
Reged: 11/04/07
Posts: 8
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Im 40 and have been a fan of astronomy since I was 5, but not serious until last summer when I took an astronomy class. Now I just bought a 10" Zhumell dob
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Randy Spiker
Radioactive Stormchaser
Reged: 01/28/07
Posts: 1877
Loc: Carson City Nv. Elev 4680 feet
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53 going on 54 (B-day is next month)
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Vixen ED80sf on a Vixen Portamount
Zhumell 12" The "Beast"
Some premium EPs
A wonderful, understanding Wife, 2 Dogs, lots of backyard Birdies, mag. 6+ skies to the S.E. on a good night.
Strange Universe, may I kiss your breeze,
Your beautiful statement - reaches,
as my wallet empties.
Carson City, Nv.
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wky46
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/12/05
Posts: 1934
Loc: west Ky.
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48. Wow, how time flies! When I first signed up here on CN I used my age then (46) for my user name.
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Phil
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10" Meade LX50 / Televue 32mm Plössl / Televue 41mm Panoptic / Baader Solar Film Cell / Garrett Gemini LW 20x80 / Nikon AE 10x50 - '96 Guild X170 Manhattan AB / '11 Guild D-55 / '96 Fender 'Twin Amp' / '96 Fender 'Blues Deluxe'
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Jimbo100
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 08/26/05
Posts: 1176
Loc: Oxford, UK.
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Hello my name's Jimbo, and I'm 31.
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THESKY
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 02/16/06
Posts: 950
Loc: SOCAL
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I started Astronomy when I was 40 . . . that was 2 years ago.
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10x42L IS
12" DSH
3.5, 5, 7,
10, 14, 20,
30, 40
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nitroexpress
professor emeritus
Reged: 12/16/06
Posts: 540
Loc: Hemet, calif
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I'm 63...started with a gilbert 2in..Reflector..long ago..
Gary.........  
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
10in Zhumell-$15/ push to circles-flocked tube
8in-c8-on a Meade GoTo EQ mount with a cg-5 Tripod
5in Meade with goto...
2in Gilbert reflector (1955 or so)
7x35 binos
Orion 100mm X 600mm Achromatic Refractor
Sac8-2 ccd camera
Edited by nitroexpress (11/08/07 10:47 PM)
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Gizmo
sage
Reged: 04/10/07
Posts: 405
Loc: SE, Minnesota
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34, and still ask for directions at star parties.
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10" Zhumell Dob (Black Sunshine)
Celestron C6-R GT
Celestron CG-5
Orion 80mm ED
Meade ETX 80AT (Donated to the Girl Scouts)
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abe
member
Reged: 07/23/05
Posts: 70
Loc: Madison, Wisconsin
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I'm 39.
It's true. Astronomy as an observational activity and a hobby is undeniably dying. The obvious reason is simple - it's because our skies are dying.
No more Milky Way. No more beautiful summer nights lazilly lying out on the front lawn with a friend watching satellites and meteors go by. Today, it takes a concerted effort to see much of anything (besides the rare Comet Holmes like celestial event that can be seen from under a streetlight) and it is usually frustrating. It's not easy to find M33 when you can't even see the major constellations and the very brightest stars.
If I were a boy again, I think I'd still be into astronomy, but probably more of the virtual variety, gazing at pixels and tinkering with computer simulated star systems instead of taking in actual celestial photons (I currently enjoy astronomy in both virtual and non-virtual forms).
Of course, there's also the idea that astronomy is dying due to declining interest in science and the general decline of intellectualism or even of civilization if you want to be more extreme. However, revealing that belief would be exposing myself as a real curmudgeon, so I'll just keep those thoughts to myself. :-)
-abe.
Abe Megahed
CTO, Hypercosm
www.abe-n-doren.com/abe/astronomy
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Americal
super member
Reged: 09/14/07
Posts: 179
Loc: Under the L. A. lightdome
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62, I ground my first mirror (a 6" f/8 ) at 15.
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Tom
Some's good, more's better...too much is just right
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4 1/4" f/5 homebuilt Newt
6" f/8 homebuilt Newt
8" f/5.1 homebuilt Newt
C11 ASGT (no, it's not homebuilt)
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kortylmt
member
Reged: 09/20/07
Posts: 19
Loc: Monrovia, CA
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35 but still buying green bananas...
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Orion SkyQuest XT10 (w/Intelliscope) 10"/f4.7
Lanthanum 22mm, 8mm
TV4 12mm, TV6 7mm, TV3-6mm
Orion Highlight Ploessl 7-10-17-26 mm
Celestron Ultima 2x Barlow
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chazcheese
professor emeritus
Reged: 11/21/04
Posts: 545
Loc: Phoenix, Az
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50, Started astronomy at 44...so much to see so little time 
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chuck
10" Orion xt
8" Meade LX200 mount/2080 OTA
C4R on CG5
Vixen ED80Sf on Porta Mount
AT-1010
PST
12X63 mini giants
15x70 Skymasters
Virgo Bino mount on Sanford/Davis tripod
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lunartic65
sage
Reged: 12/26/06
Posts: 475
Loc: Dublin Ireland
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41, 42 just after Christmas. Got a 60mm Vixen refractor some 25 years ago.
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Paul
We have your satellite if you want it back send 20 billion in Martian money. No funny business or you'll never see it again.
Seen on a hall wall at the Jet Propulsion Lab.
William Optics Megrez 110mm
Skywatcher AZ4 Alt-Az mount
22mm Vixen LVW
11mm T6 Nagler
6.5mm Meade HD-60
4.8mm T1 Nagler
Pentax 10x50 Binos
1 Wife
4 Children
1 Cat
A Crowded House
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Richard Scott
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 07/25/06
Posts: 935
Loc: Tampa FL
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59, and it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
Or… one is only young once, but one can be immature forever.
Richard
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C-11 SCT
Orion ED80
NEQ-6 Pro GEM w/Losmandy Saddle
JMI NGF-CM, Orion AccuFocus Focusers
SBIG ST-3800M with FW8-8300
Meade DSI Pro
Orion SSDSI
all tucked inside the Blue Moon Observatory
Basically more stuff than my abilities warrant
"I know I can never look upon the stars without wondering why the whole world does not become astronomers."
Thomas Wright
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JimMo
I'd Rather Do It Myself
Reged: 01/08/07
Posts: 3809
Loc: Under the SE Michigan lightdom...
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Turning 50 next month. Been interested since my teens and bought my first scope seven years ago.
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Jim M.
Ford Amateur Astronomy Club
Homemade 14.5" f4.3 Truss Dobsonian
TV85
Lunt LS60THa
Meade LX80 mount
Astrotech Voyager alt/az mount
"I'd like to remind you at four in the morning my world is very still,
The air is fresh under diamond skies, makes me glad to be alive." Randy Bachmann "Blue Collar"
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Blind-Cyclops
sage
Reged: 11/28/05
Posts: 489
Loc: Kitchener, ON, Canada
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100 years young, short, fat, bald, blind, toothless and ugly.
but who's counting...?
oh... just age... not a description.
ok -- forget the other stuff.
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Clear skies...
Duncan 
"Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!"
-- Closing line in movie spoken by newspaper report Ned "Scotty" Scott (Douglas Spencer) in the Sci-Fi movie
"The Thing From Another World", RKO Radio Pictures, 1951.
Antares (refractor) 127mm f/6.45. w/2-spd Crayford
Orion (Maksutov) 150mm f/12 w/2" EP adapter
Giro 3 (twin), 18" pier, EQ5 tripod.
Garrett 20x80mm, 410 head, 055 tripod.
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CDyer77
member
Reged: 09/17/07
Posts: 31
Loc: Birdsboro, PA
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35 yrs old & just recently (2 months ago) got my first scope - I've always been interested in astronomy, somehow I just never seem to have the time or $$ to put it all together. Now I'm hooked!
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Chris
Celestron Omni XLT 120
Celestron 4SE
I read the Skyclock thread & still cant seem to make it work....
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