by Fred

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I’ve always been fascinated by nebulae. My dad was one of those dads who had a new hobby about every 3 years or so and he enjoyed sharing those hobbies with me. We did everything from gold mining to model building to glider riding. One of my favorites though was amateur astronomy. We had only two magazine subscriptions that would come to our house, one was Sky & Telescope and the other was Astronomy. I remember pouring over those magazines and staring in awe at the detailed photographs of all the different nebulae. We would take trips out to the desert (too much “light pollution” in the city my dad would always say) to set up and peer through our telescope at the very same nebulae I drooled over in the magazines. And even though they looked much smaller, less focused, and less colorful through our relatively meager telescope, it was always a thrill to see ‘em up there in the sky.

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