My Astronomy And Observing Life

Many have asked how I got started wow that was amazing to work on. Opening up my first books I still have and going through my first ever observations have been an amazing trip. I am lucky to still have the drive and passion for observing, nothing more awe some and thrilling to do is too listen to my old radio shows and oldies under the night sky. What year did you start out ? When did you get your first telescope?1999 my mom and I would bring our two labs out to the bathroom and she would say " who wants to see the stars?" and our two dogs would run to the back door and we would look up. After some time I got wondering what the moon looked like in a telescope, then that christmas my mom wanted to buy me a telescope.My parents bought me a 5 inch newtonian reflector,Terence Dickinson's Night Watch book and Bob Berman's Secrets of the Night Sky: Most Amazing Things in the Universe You Can See with the Naked Eye. Then I became so hooked on Messier object hunting. And It was the time my mom decided to buy a computer ...