bruce_glad2@space.com wrote:
-Hey, guys I was just wondering how long have you been doing astronomy for?
My first look through a scope was when my mother took me to a friend's house when I was 8 (1957) to look at Saturn. In the early 60s she gave me a department store type scope that was awful for watching planets but did serve well for watching another kind of heavenly body (the girl next door). My astronomical interests were replaced by sky diving until the early 70s when I was in flight school and comet Kohoutek came on the scene leading me to join the local astronomy club (Tulsa, OK). One of the members had a C-8 (huge by the standards of the day) which instilled in me a life long love of orange telescopes. I've been active in astronomy (and jumping, flying and scuba) ever since. Patrick