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
Cameras: . Starlight Xpress SXVR-H16 and SXVF-H9. Starlight Xpress Lodestar, Meade LPI, and SPC900NC webcam.
Software: ..Astroart 5, PixInsight, Registax, EQMOD, The Sky 6, Pempro V2, QCfocus, GPS Time.
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Late 2002 - 10" LX200GPS with 'piggy backed' ED80 Refractor |
MX7camera attached to an Atik filter wheel |
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JMI Motor Focus fitted to coarse focus control of LX200GPS |
Meade DSI used as a guide camera until early 2008 |
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Meade Lunar Planetary Imager (LPI) |
SPC900NC webcam circuit board ready for new enclosure |
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The finshed camera, complete with 1.25" eyepiece adapter |
Meade f/3.3 and Celestron f/6.3 Focal Reducers |
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Celestron x2 Ultima Barlow and Tele Vue x5 Powermate |
Dec 2006- The MX7 camera replaced with an SXVF-H9C |
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Sept 2007 - 10" LX200GPS replaced with 12" LX200R |
SXVF-H9C attached to the 12" LX200R |
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2008 - SX Lodestar guide camera (1.25" eyepiece shown for size comparison) |
2008 - Homemade Bahtinov Masks for the 12" & 80mm scopes |
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2008 - Meade 80mm APO & WO ZS66 |
2010 - SXVF-H9 - SX USB Filter Wheel -TS Off Axis Guider and SX Lodestar guide camera |
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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 |
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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 |
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| November 2011 - SXVR-H16 with DiY Cooling Enhancer added |
November 2011 - Gerd Neumann EL Panel for Flat Fields |
