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So far I've found a few dozen planet candidates, including several multi-planet systems. A lot of this work has been done in collaboration with users on Exoplanet Explorers, including @Cabbink.

Also I do often take out my 8" Dobsonian to take a look at the Moon or Jupiter or even just a random star field. I haven't been doing it as much lately, however.

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On 8/11/2017 at 6:41 PM, thekspbegginer said:

I want  to get a reusable model rocket.

As far as I know, most of them are reusable.  At least all of mine were, not counting the ones lost in trees or lakes or that I just plain never saw again. 

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Been to space camp. Went to Air & Space museum many times.  Went to first shuttle launch. Had telescope years ago, saw mars, venus.  Visited Intrepid to see Enterprise.  Went to  Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, Virginia,

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Because nobody else has mentioned it in this thread yet:

I saw Halley's Comet on its last flyby. The local amateur astronomy club held free viewing events in the oval next to my school, so I got to check it out through a surprisingly powerful telescope as well as dad's modest binoculars.

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Whatched every SpaceX launch ever and launched amodel rocket... there were no kersplosions. I also have the space exploration Merit Badge in Boy Scouts 

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I've looked at Saturn through a telescope, I've been to Johnson Space Center (first one in the door!), I've been to Ham's gravesite, I've seen Apollo 11, Discovery, I've seen a real Titan II with mockup warhead, and I saw an annular eclipse a few years ago, and I enjoy pretending every tiny unidentifiable contrail I see is actually a reentering spacecraft...

It's fun to pretend.

Most notably, I have been launching bottle rockets (fuel mixture is 1/3 water, 2/3 air, pressurized to 50 psi- I swear that's not dangerous) for two years. They log up to fourteen seconds of flight time thanks to their parachutes, and if you walk by the right field at the right time, you might be able to see one go off (much like real rockets).

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