Equipment
Tools of my trade
Equipment
Optics
- Takahashi FSQ-106 - 106mm (4") f/5.0 Flourite refractor.
- 12.5" RCOS w/ field flattener corrector.
- Takahashi TOA-130 - 130mm (5") f/7.7 Triplet Ortho Apochromat refractor.
Camera Equipment
- Astronomik - Hydrogen Alpha, OIII and SII filters.
- SBIG - AO7 Adaptive Optics Unit (for guiding).
- SBIG - CFW-8 Filter Wheel (including Custom Scientific LRGB filter set).
- Nikon 2DX dslr camera
- Phillips Toucam 840 Pro Webcam
- SBIG - ST-2000XCM, ST-10XE ,STL-11000XM and STL-6303E CCD Cameras.
Mount
- Astro-Physics AP1200
- Paramount ME
- Takahashi - NJP Temma 2, Go-To mount.
Accessories
- Denkmeir - Denk II binoviewer (allows for binocular views - great with twin 19mm Panoptics!
- Takahashi - Various LE eyepieces.
- TeleVue - Various assorted Nagler and Panoptic eyepieces.
- Optec - TCF-S Focuser (for Meade and TOA-130).
Software
- Adobe - Photoshop CS2.
- Diffraction limited - MaximDL v. 4.0X.
- - CCDsoft v.5, CCDSharp, CCDOPS.
- Software Bisque - The Sky 6 and T-point.