Well this should be good. It struck me as to how much money have been injected into the local economy and the OS ones as well for astronomical equipment sold and bought by Aussie and NZ astronomers. I was talking to a Mr Rocketboy just the other day when it dawned on me just how much I have spent this year. I nearly died

when I roughly added it up, lets just say its well over the $10K mark and have nothing to show for it yet except rhetoric and dust sitting on some components. I never really gave much thought as to the flow on effect through the purchase of the gear…….. well what I am really bantering around is do you think the Astro community is growing and getting stronger through the transfer of goods and equipment?
OK I will try not thinking in the future