1.   As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller!

2.   Amateur astronomers around the world examine the sky regularly, usually with binoculars or telescopes.

3.   Amateur astronomers have a strange relationship with light.

4.   An amateur astronomer, he helped to establish an observatory at a Bogota university.

5.   And amateur astronomers are making contributions to the stargazing field.

6.   An avid amateur astronomer, he spends hours with his treasured telescope watching the night sky, much as Aubrey and his officers do at sea in the novels.

7.   An amateur astronomer pointed his powerful telescope at the lights and said he saw airplanes.

8.   At intellicast.com, for example, weather reports are intended for hobbyists with weather-related interests, like sailors, golfers and amateur astronomers.

9.   At that time, amateur astronomers enjoy seeing the Leonids zip across the sky, sometimes several per minute.

10.   At the University of Tennessee and elsewhere, space-savvy scholars have proposed enlisting amateur astronomers to hasten the discovery of other potentially menacing asteroids and comets.