With over 30 years of doing this I worked out that I have been squeezed out of around $15-$20K. All my books, the makings for 29 scopes, the 4" Fluorite, the 8" SCT, the 2 Vixen mounts, the Losmandy mount, the electronics, the HX516, the Panoptics, the Naglers, the Wide Fields, the various finderscopes, the aluminsing costs, the lathe, the mill, building the mirror grinding machine, the observatory, etc. etc.
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