Where to begin?
Can't believe I found my way back here after a couple weeks. And maybe the bigger surprise is that I was motivated to add another post! Especially since I haven't decided what this blog is to be about. More than likely, I'll make it about my hobby: backyard astronomy. But from which angle this time? In the old days and for decades, I called myself an amateur astronomer. However, I don't see it that way anymore. I learned the names of the 25, or so, most important stars for finding my way around the heavens throughout the year, and I became familiar with the most important constellations and asterisms. It took me about a year to figure out which "stars" were Jupiter and Saturn. Eventually, I found out about the 18th century comet hunter Charles Messier, and I learned that there are so-called "deep-sky objects" to find and observe with my telescope. But learning the stars and constellations and using my own backyard telescope to find and look at deep-s...