The Desert Fireball network is visible astronomy used to find rocks on the ground within 24 hours of impact - thus delivering insights into the early formation of the solar system and occasionally insights into extra solar material.

I think of it more as science than as a luxury pass time but you're welcome to your opinion.

Streaking trains of LEO sats are a damn nuisance.

> think of it more as science than as a luxury pass time but you're welcome to your opinion

There may be a niche for an open-source error-correcting model. These birds’ orbits are known and can be filtered from public databases. If you’re tracking meteors, you’re collecting enough data to project those orbits onto your field of vision and thus remove them as false positives.

For the luxury of taking beautiful photos, I unfortunately have nothing. (Though again, I find their paths pretty.) For the other, there are workarounds.

Science? What theory are you testing?

You know that gathering evidence and observational bit?

That part.

As you asked, you might enjoy:

https://www.amazon.com.au/What-This-Thing-Called-Science/dp/...

and then move onto Lakatos, Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Musgrave, et al.

But for now, baby steps.

You’re being needlessly condescending.

But I think you’ll find it’s a harmless question: What are you gathering evidence for exactly? What is the purpose of your observations?