Equipment

PICS of current setup

  • Losmandy G11 German Equatorial Mount
  • Meade 8" LX200 Classic F10 Schmidt-Cassegrain Catadioptric Reflector, mounted on a Meade Standard Wedge
  • Celestron 80ED f/7.5 refractor
  • Celestron Nexstar 80 f/5 refractor
  • StarlightXpress SXV-H9 CCD camera
  • StarlightXpress SXV-M7 CCD camera
  • True-Technologies Automatic Color Filter Wheel
  • Astronomik RGB IIC color filters
  • Astronomik 13nm Hydrogen Alpha filter
  • Hutech IDAS Light Pollution filter
  • Phillips ToUCam 840K Pro II webcam
  • Orion 2X and 3X Barlow lenses
  • Assorted old 35mm SLR lenses for wide field imaging.
  • Meade F/6.3 Focal Reducer/Field Flattener
  • Meade #1206 Electric Focuser
  • Meade Flip Mirror System
  • Kendrick Dew Removal System with Dew-not straps
  • Canon PowerShot A70 Digital Camera *retired*
  • ScopeTronix Digi-T telescope adapter *retired*
  • ScopeTronix MaxView 40mm plossl Eyepiece *retired*
  • Celestron Nexstar 114GT 4.5" Newtonian Reflector *Given to my brother for his birthday*

Software

  • AstroArt 3.0 - For controlling the scope, capturing and synthesizing images from my MX7-C
  • PhotoShop 7.0 
  • Registax - For aligning and stacking planetary and lunar frames from my ToUcam.
  • PixInsight LE - for noise reduction of images.
  • CCD Inspector - For evaluating the quality of images, and the collimation/alignment of the scope optics.