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My Astro Equipment |
It's no secret. Taking high resolution photos of objects buried deep in the sky requires some pretty serious equipment. A piece of equipment known as the mount is what allows an astrophotographer to accurately counteract the rotating motion of the Earth. Generally speaking, but not always, it's the single most expensive and elaborate piece of hardware in an astrophotographer's arsenal.
- Mount and Pier
- Telescopes
- Cameras
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR camera
- SBIG ST-10XME Self-Guiding CCD Imager
- SBIG CFW-10 Color Filter Wheel
- Astrodon C/L/R/G/B/SII/Ha/OIII "E" series filters
- SBIG AO-8 Adaptive Optics System
- Orion StarShoot Autoguider
- Lenses and Camera Accessories
- Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM lens
- Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM lens
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM lens
- Canon EF 2x Telextender II
- Sigma 8mm EXDG f/3.5 Fisheye lens
- Satechi TR-A Timer Remote Control
- Canon Angle Finder C
- Computer Hardware and Software
- Laptop: Sony VAIO VGN-FW590 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8800 @ 2.66GHz, 6GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 w/1GB video RAM, 500GB hard drive, Blu-ray drive, 16.4" widescreen, Windows 7 Home Premium x64)
- Desktop: Custom built PC (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.8GHz, 8GB RAM, EVGA GeForce 9800GTX+ video card, dual Dell 2408WFP 24" LCD monitors, Windows Vista Ultimate x64)
- CCDSoft and TheSky by Software Bisque
- ImagesPlus by Mike Unsold
- Maxim DL/CCD by Diffraction Limited
- Photoshop CS4 Extended by Adobe
- Other Accessories
- Tele Vue eyepieces, Powermates, and 0.8x Reducer/Flattener (TRF-2008)
- Edmund Optics RKE eyepieces
- Takahashi 0.73x Reducer-QE for the FSQ-106ED
- Technical Innovations RoboFocus
- IDAS 48mm LPS filter
- Rings and plates by SocalAstro, Losmandy, Parallax Instruments, and Robin Casady
- Cases by Pelican, Scopeguard, and Pacific Design
- Mogg adapter to connect EOS lenses to the Orion StarShoot Autoguider
- Custom designed and built AC AstroBox
- Custom designed and built DC AstroBox
- 100AH 12v deep cycle AGM battery (Sears)
- 55AH 12v deep cycle AGM battery (Optima)
- 18AH 12v SLA battery (Kendrick)
- Astronomy Equipment from Back in the Day (listed from most to least recent)
- Celestron 9.25" Schmidt-Cassegrain — photo
- Meade 12" LX200-ACF Modified Schmidt-Cassegrain — photo
- Olympus OM-1 SLR (2002-2009)
- Mountain Instruments MI-250 w/Gemini & ATS Pier (2006-2009) — photo
- Canon EOS 40D camera (Hap Griffin modified) w/EF-S 28-135mm lens (2007-2009)
- Losmandy GM-8 German Equatorial with Gemini (2007-2009) — photo
- Takahashi TOA-130F APO Triplet Refractor (2006-2007) — photo
- Canon EOS 20DH (Hutech Type Ia modification) (2005-2007)
- Meade DSI Pro (2005-2008)
- SBIG ST-2000XM CCD camera and AO-7 (2004-2007) — photo
- SBIG ST-7E CCD camera (2002-2004)
- William Optics Megrez 80mm Super APO Triplet (2002-2005) — photo
- Meade LX200GPS 10" f/10 (2003-2005) — photo
- Meade LX200 10" f/10 (1999-2002) — photo
- Nikon FM-10 SLR camera (2001-2005)
- Coulter Optics 10.1" f/4.5 Dobsonian (original blue tube) (1987-1997)
- Jason Comet 480 (76mm aperture) Schmidt-Newtonian (1985-1987) — photo
- Tasco 50mm (or 60mm?) achromatic refractor (1983-1985)
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Equipment Images
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Astro-Physics 900GTO
DSI RC10C and AP 900GTO
DSI RC10C and SBIG ST-10XME
Astro PC at Home
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