A very nice customer asked me the other day how I managed to learn the
night sky and all my stars so well without a computer. He seemed surprised that such a thing was even possible. I smiled and replied that he just dated himself as to his age.
Yes, Virginia, there was a time, before computers, when a youngster like me, with a passion for all things natural, managed to learn how to identify every bright star by name and, eventually, to know the location of nearly very bright deep-sky object visible in her inexpensive Tasco
birding binoculars. When we do something we love, no hurdle seems too high. I have much better
astronomy binoculars, today, of course, but I am still very much that same girl with the same passion for all things natural.