Enchanted Skies

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My Stuff

Scopes

  • Celestron Carbon 11" OTA (was a NexStar GPS)
  • Stellarview 115 Fluorite Triplet
  • Celestron StarSense 10" Dob
  • Orion ED80 doublet
  • 6" f/8 Dobsonian
  • Celestron C90 (tripod mount)
  • Homemade 16" truss tube Dobsonian with premium (.99 Strehl) primary mirror.

Mounts

  • Losmandy G11 with Gemini-2 System w/ RA Extension

Eyepieces, Barlows

  • Celestron 40, 32, 15, 7 & 4 mm plossls
  • Meade 15mm plossl
  • Televue 13mm Ethos
  • Televue 22mm Panoptic
  • Televue 9mm Radian
  • Superwide 42mm
  • Celestron 2x barlow (1.25")
  • Televue Big Barlow (2")
  • Televue Paracor (visual)
  • Televue PowerMate (4X, 2")
  • Stellarview EUW 28.0

Filters

  • Celestron OIII filter (1.25")
  • Astronomic UHC filter (2")
  • OIII visual filter (2")
  • Meade Hb filter (1.25")
  • Meade IR/UV filter (1.25")
  • IDAS LPS light pollution filter (1.25" & 2")
  • Baader solar filter (film, off-axis)
  • Baader 7nm Ha filter (2")
  • Baader 8nm SII filter (2")
  • Baader 8.5nm OIII filter (2")
  • Celestron colored filter set (1.25")
  • Orion Variable polarizing filter (1.25")
  • Astronomik Ha EOS clip filter
  • Astronomik SII EOS clip filter
  • Astronomic OIII EOS clip filter
  • Filter Holder (slider) for 16" dob
  • Filter slider for Hyperstar system
  • 1.25" Astrodon Ha, O3, S2, and LRGB filters

Software

  • N.I.N.A.
  • PhD Guiding 2
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5
    • Topaz DeNoise AI
    • RC Astro GradientXTerminator
    • Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools
  • Canon EOS Utility 2
  • Nebulosity 4
  • Microsoft Remote Desktop
 

Miscellaneous Optics

  • Hyperstar 3
  • Celestron 1.25" diagonal
  • Televue 2" diagonal
  • Celestron f/6.3 focal reducer/corrector
  • Lumicon Giant Easy Guider
  • Williams Optics 0.8x reducer/flattener
  • Celestron Visual Back (1.25 and 2")

Camera Lenses

  • Canon 300mm f/4
  • Canon 200mm f/2.8
  • Canon 100mm f/2
  • Canon 15mm f/2.8
  • Canon 28-135mm zoom
  • Canon 18-55mm zoom
  • Pentax 135mm
  • Pentax 40mm

Imaging Equipment

  • Hap Griffin modified Canon T2i
  • Atik 460 EX (mono).
  • Atik filter wheel.
  • Digital timer (for DSLR)
  • Srarlight Express Lodestar X2
  • Imaging Source DFK 31AF03
  • SuperCircuits PC164C (for occultation timing)
  • Bahtinov and Hartmann Masks (for C11)
  • Innovations Foresight On-axis guider (ONAG SC)
  • Intel NUC-7 Mini PC (NUC7i5DNKPC1) with two additional USB2 slots added
  • Macbook Pro (for image processing)

Miscellaneous Stuff

  • Howie Glatter Laser Collimator
  • Intervalometer (for Canon DSLR)
  • Green Laser Pointers
  • GL.iNet GL-MT300N-V2 (Mango) Wireless VPN WiFi Router (for remote control of N.I.N.A.)
  • Losmandy counter weights
  • Losmandy Dovetail & Rings
  • LapDome 'tents' for laptop or Nuc's monitor
  • Zwo Electronic Focusers
  • Telrad (on the 16" dob)
  • The 'ManVan' - a modified 2010 Ford Transit Connect van w/ 300 Amp-Hr lithium battery and inverter.
  • iPhone 12 mini (runs StarSense software)
  • Radio Shack SW Radio (for occultation timing)
  • Gillions of transformers, cables and adaptors (to try to get this stuff to work with each other)
  • A good Scotch (when my toys aren't playing nicely with each other)

 
 

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