Even with all our modern telescopes, the professionals can't look at the whole sky at once. But the amateurs are everywhere. With relatively small telescopes, they can see these nearby supernovae, which are very bright - often brighter than their host galaxies.

Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs the ark

There's really no distinction between amateurs and professionals. But I don't think we'll see yardage finders at the higher levels of the game. They all have caddies anyway.

A lot of us have our own telescopes. One of the things we like to do is go out someplace dark and set up our telescopes and look at the sky. When we have a star party, you don't mind deserting your 'scope and going down the hill to see what someone else is looking at.

The planets in their station list'ning stood.

They were bummed that the playoffs kind of ended, but they are professionals and they know we've got to get better next year.