I was thinking.....

[Caz]

...if a lot more people decided to take up astronomy, and stick with it, we wouldn't have to pay extortionate prices for filters, lenses etc....

[GazOC]

....on the other hand there wouldn't so much cheap, secondhand gear knocking about....

[The Warthog]

Oh yes we would! We'd have to pay much more for the decent stuff we get now, and the market would be even more flooded with cheap imitations of quality. You could go to your local cheap merchant's and get a blue filter that the glass pops out of the third time you use it.

[col]

i cant believe the price of books, if they were cheaper, i would definitely buy more, ones im interested in always seem to be 30 pound plus??