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Re: A Case for GOTO
09/26/07 01:25 PM
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It seems to me that people who are adamantly pro-GOTO and people who are adamantly anti-GOTO are involved in the hobby for completely different reasons. The GOTO people are out there to *look at* things, while the non-GOTO people are out there to *find* things.
For me, I enjoy both in equal measure. I don't think I would enjoy seeing things as much if I was just pressing a button and looking in my eyepiece. Using my star charts and trying to reconcile what I see there with what I can see above me,and hopping from point to point until I arrive at my destination is a necessary part of the satisfaction I feel when I get to the point where I can actually look at what I'm trying to find.
Whatever my personal feelings, though, I think it's silly and pedantic to decide out of hand that one is 'better' than the other. It's our responsibility as people who've been involved in the hobby for a while to help new people make the choices that are best for them, not force some kind of ideology on them.
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