From: "daniel turner" <outwest112@yahoo.com> <Daniel wrote:>
Chuck: You're way off base.
Chuck is a good guy.
The attitude of many advanced amateurs is to build a bunker in their own backyard or a locked building out in the boonies to keep out the "masses". This is not public outreach. This is snobbery.
Not everybody shares the same asperations in pursuit of this hobby. We have members whose interst range from professional-amateur collaboration to public astronomy to telescope making to private observing sessions. Just because somebody doesn't share your vision of astronomy in not justification of calling them snobs.
I attended all the SLAS public star parties last year and it was largely the same 5 guys who carried load alone. <
5? 5? Five? Funf? Cinco? Siegfried