Re: The Dumbing Down of Astronomers

You look a lot like a troll.
YOU ARE A TROLL AND a TROG

Modern amateur astronomers now have access to world class research data
via the internet and a chance to participate in various pro-am
collaborations to cover monitoring transient objects expected to
outburst like cataclysmic variable stars. The email and the internet has
made this possible IAU circulars were too slow.

It is not by any stretch of the imagination dumbing down. You are offaxis.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Yet FEWER and FEWER amateurs actually care to participate in those
things because the obsession is about equipment. Look at the obsession
about which focuser is better, which COLOR LOOKS PRETTIER scattered
across dozens of forums across a hundred websites.
Then turn to the actual observing forums on those same websites and
compare the amounts of messages about one subject vs the other you will
find 3 and 4 to 1 ratios for the appearance over the use.

Do I think everyone falls in this category NO I think too many do and
those so easily offended here are the ones who are probably the most at
fault . The ones who say I am a troll or offaxis and state their
participation in active programs when you should see that many club
memberships have gotten older and don't attract as many young
participants as they use to is this because the are not as many people
or is it its not slick enough for them? Maybe just maybe its that since
we do not make it look enticing because the majority of amateurs
stopped bothering to try to achieve something and thus stopped making
astronomy a tempting experience.

.

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