Guessing maintenance would be in the order of 50 K per year, to say nothing of the capital outlay/capital servicing would work out at a hefty amount per night of use. Absolute minimum of $200 per night. Realistically, taking in to account all costs/ bad conditions etc would be in the order of 3-5 k per night.Guesstimate $500 per hour. Also, the scope would be likely to crash if used by someone at home who keyed in the wrong stuff. There is such a robotic scope up at Siding Springs that was donated be some billionaire(I think Paul Allen of Microsoft) that was to be used online by school kids. It crashed, so is still sitting there with its computer kaput
.Methinks this is in the realm of academic institutions, not well heeled amateurs.