Setup
I currently use the following materials:
Telescopes
- Meade Lightbridge 12″ (dobson)
- Vixen Shuttle Scope 80S on Vixen Polaris mount
- Bresser (Lidl) 10×50 bino
Eyepieces & barlows
- Meade S5000 28mm Super Wide Angle
- Meade S5000 20mm Super Wide Angle
- Baader Hyperion Zoom Mark III
- Kokusai Kohki 5mm orthoscopisch oculair
- Long Perng 3mm long eye relief (super plössl)
- TS 1.5x barlow (used only for barlowed laser collimations)
Filters
- Lumicon OIII
- Baader 40% moon
- Teleskop Express IR/UV block
Cameras
- Philips SPC900 webcam
Other stuff
- Celestron 7hA powertank
- Baader Laser Collimator
- 2″ Dew-Not on the focuser
- 1.25″ Dew-Not on the finder scope
- 0.96″ Dew-Not on the secondary mirror
- DIY dew-not controller
- Skywatcher 9×50 finder scope on the Lightbridge
- Vixen RDF on the Lightbridge
- Farpoint counterweights on the Lightbridge
Stuff I used to own:
- Astronomik UHC-E 1.25″ filter
- 200mm F10 DIY dobson (by Piet Kuit) (donated to Publiekssterrenwacht Schothorst)
- Unmodified Canon Eos 350D
- Orion T2 ring & extension tube
- Astronomiser.co.uk’s Canon 350D AC adapter (12v)
- Meade 6” SN on Meade LXD75 mount
- Celestron C6-N on a Skywatcher EQ5 with Synta RA drive and polar finder;
- modded Philips Vesta Pro webcam (SC 1.5 mod);
- Bresser 114m newton;
- Bresser Skylux 70mm refractor;
- Philips Vesta Pro webcam
- TSZ7 zoom eyepiece
All pictures made before september 2010 were made using the Celestron C6-N on the EQ5 mount. So tracked but unguided. All pictures made between septemer 2010 and november 2011 were made using the LXD75 and 6″ Meade netwon OTA.
Celestron C6-N 150/750mm aiming at an early moon
