Originally Posted by jtaylor996

I had to say goodbye to most of my glass. It was hard each time. Allow me to eulogise:

You are missed 70-200 2.8L MkII

Goodbye dear 17-40 f4L

I know you are in the service of a nice disabled man, my beloved carbon fiber tubed C11 (2800mm telescope). I hope you didn't kill that poor bastard that was trying to make a parallelogram mount for your ample 30 pounds of weight without any of the required accessories which add another 10 pounds (it was a crazy disabled man, I'll give him that).

Lastly, I will forever remember the views I had of the Orion Nebula through you my dearly departed TMB 92SS refractor. It's not your fault your color correction was inferior to the super apo triplet that replaced you (my new russian wife). You tried your best, but to be honest the Russian also beat the pants off of the C11 for views of Jupiter (despite being 4" aperture instead of 11").