Current Equipment List & Photos of Current & Previous Equipment

 

Telescopes:. Meade LX200ACF 8" OTA with Moonlite Crayford Focuser - William Optics FLT 110 with Moonlite Focuser

Mount: ......Permanent Pier and NEQ6 GE Mount with Synscan

General: ....Field Flatteners/Focal Reducers: Celestron f/ 6.3, Optec f/6.2, William Optics AFR-IV, TS 2" Flattener.

Celestron Ultima x2 Barlow & Tele Vue x5 Powermate

Meade Series 4000 and 5000 Eyepieces

Celestron Skymaster 15 x 70 Binoculars

Thousand Oaks Type ll Glass Solar Filter

Starlight Xpress USB 2.0. Filter Wheel

Baader LRGB and Ha/OIII/SII filters

Starlight Xpress Off Axis Guider

Gerd Neumann Electro-Luminescent Panel

Lakeside Motor Focusers with Hitec Astro Focus Master controller.

Cameras: . Starlight Xpress SXVR-H16 and SXVF-H9. Starlight Xpress Lodestar, DMK 21AU04

Software: ..Astroart 5, PixInsight, Registax, EQMOD, The Sky 6, Pempro V2, IC Capture, SharpCap

 

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Late 2002 - 10" LX200GPS with 'piggy backed' ED80 Refractor	MX7camera attached to an Atik filter wheel
JMI Motor Focus fitted to coarse focus control of LX200GPS	Meade DSI used as a guide camera until early 2008
	Re-Cased SPC900NC webcam
Dec 2006- The MX7 camera replaced with an SXVF-H9C	Sept 2007 - 10" LX200GPS replaced with 12" LX200R
2008 - Homemade Bahtinov Masks for the 12" & 80mm scopes	2008 - Meade 80mm APO & WO ZS66
2010 - SXVF-H9 - SX USB Filter Wheel -TS Off Axis Guider and SX Lodestar guide camera	March 2011 -New Setup - NEQ6 Mount -Meade 8" LX200ACF - Equinox 80 ED Refractor
March 2011 - Moonlite Focuser on LX200 - SX OAG and Filter Wheel - SX Lodestar Guide Camera - SXVF-H9	September 2011 - Equinox 80ED replaced with a William Optics FLT 110 Triplet, and Side-by-Side mounting setup
September 2011 -FLT 110 - SX OAG and Filter Wheel - SX Lodestar Guide Camera - SXVF-H9	November 2011 - SXVR-H16 with DiY Cooling Enhancer added
November 2011 - Gerd Neumann EL Panel for Flat Fields