How long have you been interested in astronomy?

I have been interested in astronomy as long as I could remember. When I was a young child, I would ask my father questions he himself could not tell me about the universe. From there, I spent many nights staying up and reading books about the Solar System and the universe, and wondering to myself about the huge size of the universe and the sheer secrets it holds. Been in love with it ever since.

When I was around 7-9 I got an electronic machine thing that told you all information about the solar system, and by the age of 8-10 I got my first telescope and I was obsessed with the Moon, I would look at it every night.

Now astronomy is just a hobby for me, I didn't study it at school, collage, university or anything, just learned what I know online.

I actually don't even own a telescope now, it's actually a little hard to look at the stars where I live with all the light pollution (London)

About 14 years now.

I have been hooked since 12 when I became curious about reading the term "blue supergiant." The weirdness comes from the fact that a star is small compared to other stars of the same term - supergiant. I inquired about a space map in Sky and Telescope on how pricy would their gloss-finished star maps be. The very kind person who replied to me sent me a simple map instead in hard paper and sent me the price list. I still have the map until today but I never get to buy the glossy ones. Ever since I had the map, there were many almost sleepless nights literally scouring the night skies. I kinda sorted the most interesting stars first and went on searching for more. I once lived just north of the equator so I was able to memorize most of the nightsky. When I went to high school the interest is there but I think I overdid studying since I run for schoold honors. At any rate it is always there. When I look at the night sky, I can still recognize star patterns nonetheless. The same goes for college. When I started working and it became too stressful for me, I tried joining a local astronomy club. The camaraderie is awesome and I had seen DSO's through decent telescopes for the first time. After about a year, it became boring since my interest that time are binaries and I am the only one at that. I lost contact since then but my interest gre stronger. I went from spectroscopic binaries to the mega-weird and mysterious. At age 26, now I have a few giant binoculars and 2 reflectors in my collection plus a lot more stellar stories to tell. Yes, 14 years have passed and there's still a lot more to learn, a lot more to see.

Clear skies!

I've always been sort of interested...there was a book called Seeing Stars which interested me when I was 5 or 6, and I remember trying to watch a partial solar eclipse around that age. I got interested in science fiction when I was 12. When I was 16, I read about a comet in the newspaper, and tried looking for it. I never found the comet, but spotted Jupiter and identified some constellations and stars, and I was hooked. I was very active in amateur astronomy all through college, then went off to grad school and got involved in other things. I always was interested in astronomy a bit, but didn't really get hooked again until I was nearly 60. Since then I've been really active again.

When I was 6th grade (actually about now). When my teacher doesn't teach me about astronomy yet. As usual, I love to read, so I read the astronomy part. It was fun and I already remember the whole thing just in a few week. I even remember the satellite of the planets accidentally!

I then started to like it. I even always try to answers the question that my teacher always ask for fun quizzes (even one part when my friends doesn't even know it). It was fun and I like to like it more maybe even more than geography.

I then explored the internet and I was remembered the symbols of the planet from Mercury to Pluto. I always try to know more and more than my friends even know until now.

I never actually use a telescope but sometimes, I want to try it and wish I could see my most favorite Planet in the whole Galaxy, Neptune. Wish me Luck and if you count it, it just maybe 2 month I interested in astronomy and solar system. It's quite short but everyone do have story to tell, right?

I have been interested in Astronomy since I was about five years old. I was spending much of my time in looking through NASA's websites and other meteorological websites. And I was watching all of the science channels as well, featuring the Science channel, National Geographic, and so on,and I'm still watching them actively today. I remember the good old days when I was printing a bunch of images sent from the MRO (the satellite which orbits Mars) daily, I'm not sure why have I done that, but I enjoy looking back at all of those prints which I made. And one of the things that impress me is that I have learned so much about this study, even though I have not been taught of it anywhere!

I was interested in astronomy since I was in 3rd grade. My teacher told me that there was a planet 1000 thousand times as big as our planet, and that amazed me, and over that year I learned more and more stuff about astronomy by watching documentaries on the science channel and history channel., and Now im hooked for good. I plan on getting a PhD and becoming an astronomer.

I first looked through a telescope when I was 12 years old, and I was hooked. That was about 17 years ago. And I'm still trying to finish a PhD in the field.

My interest started with the original episodes of Star Trek back in the late 60's and early 70's. Watching people trekking through space was very fascinating and gave me the idea of the potential possibilities of life outside Earth.

Even though we haven't found any life outside of Earth yet....the wonder was still there and watching Star Trek was where I first got my interest.

I was interested in astronomy when I was in grade school in the mid '80s. When I got to JR high and high school I kind of forgot about it. It wasn't until the last couple of years when I started to get interested in it again.