Equipment
Mounts:
- Celestron ASGT
- Losmandy G-11
- Barn Door Tracker
Telecopes & Lenses:
- Celestron C8-NGT Newtownian, 200mm aperture, f/5, 1000mm focal length
- Celestron 80ED Refractor, 80mm aperture, f/7.5, 600mm focal length
- Astrotech AT8RC Ritchey Chretien, 200mm aperture, f/8, 1625mm focal length
- Homemade 127mm Refractor, 127mm aperture, f/9.4, 1200mm focal length
- Empire Model 652 Stargazer (1960s Sam’s Bargain Town), 50mm aperture, f/12, 600mm focal length with Surplus Shed replacement objective
- Orion Mini 50 Guide Scope – 50mm aperture, 162mm focal length, f/3.2
- Canon 200mm focal length, f/2.8, L Series EF lens
- Sigma 17 – 70mm focal length, f/2.8 – 4.5, DC Macro EF lens
- Canon 50mm focal length, f/1.8, FD lens
- Nikon Nikkor 105mm f/2.5, Ai lens with Ai to Canon EF adapter
- Antares Focal Reducer, 1.25″, 95mm focal length
- Surplus Shed L3650A Focal Reducer, 2″, 130mm focal length
- Baader Multipurpose Coma Corrector (MPCC)
- Astro-Tech AT2FF 2″ Field Flattener
- Orion Thin Off Axis Guider
- Scopestuff RDP1 1x Finder
Cameras:
- Canon Digital Rebel, 300D, unmodified
- Canon XSi, 450D, (Canon IR Filter #2 replaced with Baader UV/IR Filter)
- Celestron NexImage Planetary
- SC2 – Kodak KAC-9638 CMOS
- SC2M10 – Micron MT9M001 CMOS
- SC2M8 – Micron MT9M001 CMOS used for autoguiding
- SC2M034 – Micron / Aptina MT9M034 CMOS used for autoguiding
- SC285 – Sony ICX285AL CCD
- SC8300 – Kodak KAF8300 CCD
Filters:
- Baader SII, Ha, OIII Narrowband
- AstroDon LRGB I-Series, E-Series
- Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 Light Pollution
- Orion Skyglow
- Astronomik CLS EOS Clip-filter
- Astronomik Filter Drawer
- Custom Made Canon EF Lens to T-Thread Filter Exchange
Software:
- PHD Guiding (ASCOM & GPUSB Mount Interface)
- PHD Guiding 2
- Deep Sky Stacker
- Iris
- AIP4WIN
- Photoshop CS2
- PixInsight LE 1.0
- PixInsight 1.8 Ripley
- MATLAB
- Ekos
- Registax
- Amcap
- EOS Utility
- Backyard EOS
- The Sky
- Cartes Du Ciel
- SkySafari 5 Plus
- KStars
- All Sky Plate Solver
- ASTAP
