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| Astronomy and Astrophotography - Equipment and Field Setup |
VISUAL AND PHOTOGRAPHICAL ASTRONOMY:
Equipment (Setup pictures to the right):
Telescopes:
- Celestron Edge HD 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain
- Explore Scientific 80mm Apo Triplet refractor
- Explore Scientific 127mm Apo Triplet refractor
- Takahashi FSQ-106EDXiii with reducer and extender
Mounts:
- Celestron CGEM (German Equatorial) mount
- Losmandy G11 with Gemini 2
- Orion Teletrack (Alt-Az) portable mount
Cameras:
- Canon EOS 5D DSLR
- Starlight Xpress M25C CCD Camera
- SX Lodestar (guidecamera)
- SX Lodestar color (guidecamera)
- Flea 3 FW 800 camera from Point Grey (planetary)
- SXVR-H18 with Filter Wheel and Off Axis Guider
Miscellaneous:
- Starizona Hyperstar Lens for the 11" SCT
- Denkmeier S2 2" diagonal with power switch and filter switch
- Baader 8-24 MM zoom, 21 mm hyperion, 36 mm aspheric eye pieces
- Baader filters O-III, UHS-C, UV-IR Cut, Moon and Skyglow
- Astrodon Tru Balance filters and 5 nm Ha, Sii and Oiii Narrowband filters
- ADM Adapters
- Vario Finder and Tangent Stronghold system from Baader
Equipment (Setup pictures to the right):
Telescopes:
- Celestron Edge HD 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain
- Explore Scientific 80mm Apo Triplet refractor
- Explore Scientific 127mm Apo Triplet refractor
- Takahashi FSQ-106EDXiii with reducer and extender
Mounts:
- Celestron CGEM (German Equatorial) mount
- Losmandy G11 with Gemini 2
- Orion Teletrack (Alt-Az) portable mount
Cameras:
- Canon EOS 5D DSLR
- Starlight Xpress M25C CCD Camera
- SX Lodestar (guidecamera)
- SX Lodestar color (guidecamera)
- Flea 3 FW 800 camera from Point Grey (planetary)
- SXVR-H18 with Filter Wheel and Off Axis Guider
Miscellaneous:
- Starizona Hyperstar Lens for the 11" SCT
- Denkmeier S2 2" diagonal with power switch and filter switch
- Baader 8-24 MM zoom, 21 mm hyperion, 36 mm aspheric eye pieces
- Baader filters O-III, UHS-C, UV-IR Cut, Moon and Skyglow
- Astrodon Tru Balance filters and 5 nm Ha, Sii and Oiii Narrowband filters
- ADM Adapters
- Vario Finder and Tangent Stronghold system from Baader
EQUIPMENT: Garage center bay turned into a remote operation station.
THE FIELD SETUP: 3rd trip to this site - but with 2 mounts. Losmandy G11, CGEM, Dual Refractors, C11 Edge HD, more bugs than anyone
should ever have to deal with, packs of coyote, armadillo, wild boar (fresh hunting license, a .270 and a Kimber 45 with a laser sight waiting for them if
I should be so lucky) and this time - a bear was seen.... My cousin Jay Smith's property in Hawkinsville, GA September, 2011 ish. Very, very dark.
should ever have to deal with, packs of coyote, armadillo, wild boar (fresh hunting license, a .270 and a Kimber 45 with a laser sight waiting for them if
I should be so lucky) and this time - a bear was seen.... My cousin Jay Smith's property in Hawkinsville, GA September, 2011 ish. Very, very dark.
| The 'interesting' part of backwoods, dark-sky astrophotography. Night Neighbors.... |
| Large solar storm and spots during the trip - Flea3 - ED127 refractor - Video stack of 200 |
| Equipment and Field Setup Specs: |
| I have long been interested in the this and I am now trying it. Bought my first scope on 11/1/10. The photography side of it is difficult and will take years to learn. See below for recent work and archives. |
| Click Page # below for most recent astrophotographic work - higher page # is more recent: |
| A more permanent selection of OTA and Camera equipment has been chosen in the Takahashi FSQ-106 EDXiii imaging refractor and the SXVR-H18 mono 8300 based CCD Camera. Shown side-by-side with the ES ED80 for occasionally viewing while imaging. |