I’d think the odds of getting the kind of astronomy job you want is pretty low, though that doesn’t mean impossible.
I once shared an office in Silicon Valley with a guy who had an Astrophysics PhD from Stanford. He became a programmer because he couldn’t find an astrophysics job.
If you’ve never spent time in an actual observatory for a few nights, you should see if you can attend the following -
I did it with my daughter a few years ago, and learned astronomy can be rather grueling. Don McCarthy, the guy who runs it, would be a great source of information