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I do my observations mainly with the following
equipment:
Celestron C8
- 200mm mirror, Schmidt-Cassegrain,
2000mm focal length, f/10
Skywatcher Equinox
- 80mm APO refractor,
500mm focal length, f/6.25
Coronado PST
- 40mm f/10 <1.0A
H-Alpha Telescope
HEQ5 SkyScan Pro mount
- goto mount
- PEC
Skywatcher Skymax-102
-100mm Maksutov-Cassegrain,
1300mm focal length, f/13
- EQ 2mount with single axis motor
Casio QV-3500EX
- 3 megapixel digital
camera
- 3X optical zoom, 2X digital zoom
- ASA 100,180,300 and 500
- exposure times up to 60s and bulb
Starlight Xpress SXV-H9C
- CCD type: Sony ICX285AK
Exview HAD CCD with ultra low dark current
- CCD pixel data: Pixel size: 6.45µm x 6.45µm, image
format: 1392 x 1040 pixels
- CCD size: Image area: 8.98mm (horizontal) x 6.7mm (vertical).
- Spectral response: QE max at 540nm (~65%), 50% roll-off at
400nm and 750nm.
- Readout noise: Less than 12e RMS
- Full-well capacity: Greater than 27,000 e- (unbinned)
- Anti-blooming: Overload margin greater than 800x.
- Dark current: Dark frame saturation time greater than 100 hours.
Less than 0.1 electrons/second @ + 10C ambient.
- USB2
ATIK 1 HS
- modified webcam
(long exposures, fan cooling)
QHY5
- mainly quide camera
with cmos chip
- 1280*1024 reolution
Nikon D40
- 6 mpix DSLR
- 18-50mm ED and 55-200mm ED VR tele
Digiadapt
- adapter to connect
digicam/SLR to telescope
- eyepiece projection
- Scopetronics (www.scopetronics.com) product
Misc
- Celestron f/6.3
focal reducer
- Astronomik CLS filter
- Astronomik H-alfa filter
- TS SuperView 40mm eyepiece with threads for (digital) camera
- JMI NGF-C Crayford focuser
- duomount
- 32mm,25mm Plössls
- 15mm Vixen LV,
- 10mm Baader
- 2.5X PowerMate
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