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Lots !!! please don't tell my wife , I have been quietly accumulating since the mid 1970s (when I started getting money)
Atlux about $7000 (new)
10" Newt home built with bought high qual optics and best hardware available $1500-$2000 maybe more
3 coma correctors (Lumicon (new) + Baader used photographically, Televue Visual (new) $1200
stack of Plossyl , and Kelner eyepieces mostly 1.25" and a 2" ... anyone's guess $??
autoguider $400 (new)
laptop $3000
3 x 4400mAh laptop batteries + 2 x 6600mAh (new) laptop battery $500 ??
Minolta XD5 + several zooms and telephotos (cost me near $2000 in early 1980s)
40D enthusiast kit + 8 GB memory card $1700 (new)
Hypering kit $600
ohd 35mm enlarger and safelight $500
binoculars (20x80s and 20x65s) $1000
several GEMs (Vixen Super Polaris - no drives, tasco no drives, EQ1 driven, CG5 dual axis driven) $1500 ??
Set of 1.25" Lumicon filters DS, Hbeta, UHC, OIII, + Celeston 1.25" LPF $700 ??
2x Compact Gelpak 12V 18Ah batteries x 2 + 12V Jump Starter Battery Pak + numerous AC/DC adapters $????
A stack of bits and pieces (tube clamps and tube rings , adapters , a couple of 1.25" Vega 1's R&P , and Lumicon 1.25" and 2" Ultralow Profile Helical focusors)
refractors (Tasco 60mm 1960s vintage (guidescope duty), 50mm Lumicon finderscope, had a Vixen 104mm Fluorite with the GPDX with dual axis drives until it walked away never to be seen again (last year)).
Stack of books on telescope making and optics , collection of S&T and Astronomy mags, full set of Antonin Becvar's bound large format colour charts (1950 epoch) , Guide V8 .... $3000 ??? maybe more.
Ordered Lumicon 2" Newt Esyguider $400
Soon to be ordered Canon EF 70-200 f2.8 L IS USM
+ EF 2X II teleconvertor
+ TC80N3
+ spare battery (or 2)
+ a 2" Lumicon DSF
+ drop-in LPF from Huteck
+ a set of front Hoya filters (77mm and 67mm diam UV, whitebalance, circ polarising to suit the two Canon lenses I have) $2500 there or abouts..
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