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You know you're an amateur astronomer when...


• all the interior lights in your car are tinted red.

• you will drive hundreds of miles to look for a dark sky.

• you will buy a house near a cemetery just to get away from street lights.

• you own a flashlight that shines red light.

• you’ve ever called “1,000 years” very recent.

• if North is drawn at the top of the page, you expect East on the left and West on the right.

• you think that -1 is bigger than 6 (it’s brighter, anyway).

• the last “dirty snowball” you saw was beautiful.

• you upgrade the suspension and tires on your new van so you can haul a trailer full of telescopes up the mountain.

• you fly thousands of miles to see an event that is over in two and a half minutes.

• someone calls you a “wimp” and you wonder what dark matter has to do with you. (Compiled from the Web.)


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