[jerri]

I love astrology and bird watching. I used to do a lot of traveling years ago, but flying these days is a pain.

Several years ago I bought a 6 inch reflector telescope thinking it would be a nice sized scope. I was sorely disappointed to find out that I needed something much larger for standard viewing. I could barely see Saturn's rings with it.

Indeed, air travel is a major pain nowadays.  I have to mentally prepare myself every time I fly. 

I mostly just dabble in stargazing.  Showing family and friends views of Jupiter and Saturn is fun, though I also have a small telescope so the views are nothing like you see online from people with huge scopes. 

I built a sidereal tracking device to make it possible to take longer exposure photographs.  I've been able to photograph some comets that are not particularly bright by using that along with a decent digital camera.