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It is very hard to define "amateur" astronomer today..
In times when I was beginning with this amazing hobby, it was assumed that people will build their own instruments because to buy them was simply incomprehensible, for two reasons: price (of equipment) and pride (of individual or group or club).
The same thing applied to radio-amateurs (ham-radio amateurs).
But today, everything is commercialized. Even pride.
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