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I’m a casual enthusiast with nothing of significance to add to the discussion on space.

I’ve been in the market for a telescope for years and last flew a model rocket with an A motor sometime around 2012.

@PhotonEmpress I was today years old when I found out I could have been fixing my egregious bastardizations of the English language due to my fat thumbs this whole time.

@PhotonEmpress ugh, just noticed my typo that gave us a 26 hour day. Can I pay $8 for an edit button?

Your work thus far is nothing short of amazing. I can’t imagine the long road you’ve been on, but the end justifies the means.

@PhotonEmpress I admire your willpower. I make it to noon without eating and fully intend on drinking my 400cal huel shake for lunch, but end up with a 1000cal hoagie from Wawa and a bag of skittles.

It was so much easier to adopt an 18/8 intermittent fasting routine than it is to cut out all the crap.

@Robotbeat great, thanks for the reply.

Anyone out there have thoughts on a basic astrophotography setup?

I was leaning towards a dobsonian telescope, and have now learned from a YouTube video that those aren’t a good idea?

I already have a decent enough dslr camera that could be used.

I’ve got reasonably dark skies in central Florida, and would be nice to see what’s going on beyond this planet.

Thanks in advance!

@georgetakei the emails started about midday Wednesday and haven’t stopped.
NASA astronaut Eileen Collins was born #OTD in 1956. She was the first woman to pilot the space shuttle (1995) and the first woman to command a shuttle mission (1999).
@PhotonEmpress serious thanks for setting this up. It’s nice to marvel at the genius of others and fantasize about a life that never was free of the nonsense associated with other social platforms.