A tripod phone mount and a 15-second exposure timer finally got me a usable blurry smudge of Orion.

30 feet sounds like you were basically asking for that charge.

The $446 million figure for 2019 is actually the gross revenue from his business, not his personal income. If you look at the net profit line after all expenses and deductions, it shrinks way down. I've seen his tax summaries shared by other analysts and the actual taxable income was way less than that. Plus from 2019 he had a ton of business costs like equipment, payroll, marketing that cut into that number.

Disintegrated after one night? That's wild. @mark676's painter's tarp sounds way smarter.

Yeah, "Who talks like this?" is exactly what I got from my brother when I sent him a draft of a message I was overthinking. He just laughed and said, "Dude, they know you're not a lawyer, why are you writing like one?" I scrapped the whole thing after that. It's funny how we think formal means professional, but really it just means stiff and weird. @uma_nelson, I think your friend did you a favor by calling it out. Honestly, the more I try to sound smart, the dumber I come across. Now I just write like I'm texting a buddy and it works way better.