Enchanted Skies

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My Stuff

Scopes

  • Celestron carbon 11" OTA (was a NexStar GPS)
  • Homemade 4.5" Dobsonian
  • Orion ED80
  • 6" f/8 Dobsonian
  • 10" Dobsonian
  • Homemade 16" truss tube Dobsonian with premium (.99 Strehl) primary mirror.
  • Stellarview 115mm fluoride triplet

Mounts

  • Losmandy G11 with Gemini System
  • Shoestrong Astronomy GPUSB interface

Eyepieces, Barlows

  • Celestron 40, 32, 15, 7 & 4 mm plossls
  • Meade 15mm plossl
  • Televue 13mm Ethos
  • Televue 22mm Panoptic
  • Televue 9mm Radian
  • 25mm plossl (came with STI Stiletto)
  • Superwide 42mm
  • Celestron 2x barlow (1.25")
  • Televue Big Barlow (2")
  • Televue Paracor (visual)
  • Televue PowerMate (4X, 2")
  • Meade 12mm 'illuminated' reticle eyepiece

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" Ha, O3, S2, and LRGB filters
 

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 field flattener
  • Celestron Visual Back (1.25 and 2")

Camera Lenses

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

Imaging Equipment

  • Hutech type 1 modified Canon Digital Rebel
  • Hap Griffin modified Canon T2i
  • Atik 460 EX (mono).
  • Atik filter wheel.
  • Digital timer (for DSLRs)
  • Srarlight Express Lodestar X2
  • Imaging Source DFK 31AF03
  • SC1-modified Phillips ToUCam
  • SuperCircuits PC164C (for occultation timing)
  • Ball Mount (for cameras)
  • Bahtinov Mask (for C11)
  • Hartmann Mask (for C11)
  • Canon right angle finder
  • On-axis guider.
  • Dell Lattitude (for autoguiding and camera control)
  • Macbook Pro (for guiding and image processing)

Miscellaneous Stuff

  • Howie Glatter Laser Collimator
  • Green Laser Pointers (5mW, 65mW, 100mW)
  • Losmandy counter weight system
  • Losmandy Dovetail & Rings
  • Adjustable viewing chair
  • Telrad (on the 16" dob)
  • Radio Shack SW Radio (for occultation timing)
  • Gillions of cables and other adaptors (to try to get this stuff to work with each other)
  • A good Scotch (when stuff doesn't work well with each other)

 
 

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Enchanted Skies - Astrophotography by Rich Richins (all images copyright, Rich Richins)