Telescope
by Bob on Oct.10, 2010, under My Equipment
Main telescope: Skywatcher 120/900mm ED Apo
Guidescope: Skywatcher 80/600mm ED Apo
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro Synscan
Camera 1: Atik 314L OSC (One-Shot Color)
Camera 2: Canon EOS 550D (unmodified)
Autoguide camera: Alccd5 monochrome
Accessories: 0.85x Focal reducer for the Skywatcher 120/900, 2″ 2x ED Barlow
Capture software: Nebulosity 2, Cartes Du Ciel, PHD
Processing software: DeepSkyStacker, Nebulosity 2
Post-processing software: Adobe Photoshop CS4
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June 24th, 2011 on 07:51
Wow! Nice photos!
Very similar story to me… I was in an astro society in my teens. Recently I got a CGEM 925 and am looking at getting the same Atik for imaging! You are inspiring me!!
June 24th, 2011 on 08:46
Thank you for your awesome compliment!
Are you going to upload your images somewhere when you’re ready to take up astrophotography?
I’m very interested to see what you can do with this setup from way over there Down Under (your email address says yahoo.com.au, forgive me if my assumption is incorrect ;)).
June 25th, 2011 on 00:44
Yes I am “Down Under”!
The scope has used the budget for this year, so it will be next year by the time I am posting images. Gives me a good length of time to learn a “goto” scope – I am used to dobsonian type scopes.
Nice skies last night – I managed to view three mag 13 galaxies from the backyard in town! Very happy with that! (NGC 3783, NGC 4645 and NGC 4767)
I’ll keep an eye on your images!
June 25th, 2011 on 01:48
Hehe, I know how expensive this hobby can be, it’s been quite taxing for my bank account as well 😉
I only wish I had such dark skies as you (can) have in Australia, our light pollution is truly horrible!
I’m eagerly waiting for clear skies, our summers are usually quite bad for astro-photography, what with the short nights and no real dark skies and all.
So it may take a while until I can post anything new.
It’s a great compliment for me though, knowing that even my low level of amateur photography inspires others 🙂