My Equipment

Last updated:  01/03/2007
Meade LX-200 8 inch telescope
NGF-S JMI focuser, Kendrick Due Removal System
 SBIG ST-237A camera, with color filter wheel. Meade Flip Mirror System, & CCD Framing Ocular
Thousand Oaks Type II solar filter
Celestron NexStar 5 with Thousand Oaks Type II solar filter
Pentax K1000 Camera with cable release

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 Celestron NexStar 5i at work watching Mars.  Televue Powermate 2.5, with Televue 7mm Nagler, with Kendrick dew removal system at work.

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 LX-200 ready to go for the evening.  SBIG St-237A is cooling down, and ready for a night of imaging.  

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 My new Takahashi TOA 130 setting on it's NJP Temma 2mount.  This was the second light for this telescope and it gave us views of Jupiter and Saturn that I have never experience before.  

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    This is my main set-up for imaging.  It is my Takahashi TOA 130 and my Sky 90 mounted on a Casady tandem mount. They are both setting on my NJP mount which is one hack of a mount for astrophotography.  

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This is my main set-up for imaging.  It is my Takahashi TOA 130 and my Sky 90 mounted on a Casady tandem mount. They are both setting on my NJP mount which is one hack of a mount for astrophotography.  

TOA 130 and the Sky 90 sitting waiting for polar alignment at Columbus Site.