Equipment

My telescope equipment consists of two configurations:

a) Reflector imaging scope; and
b) Refractor imaging scope.

Telescopes & Mounts:
   EQ-6 Pro Equatorial Mount with Synscan Controller;
   8" f/4 Meade LXD-75 Schmidt-Newtonian reflector;
   80mm f/7.5 Orion 80ED 80mm Orion apochromatic refractor;
   80mm f/5 Orion 80ST 80mm Orion Short Tube guidescope refractor;
4.5" f/8 old Tasco Newtonian reflector; and
   Barn door tracker (a home made job - cheap and effective).

Cameras:
   Canon Digital Rebel XT EOS 350D Digital (DSLR) Camera
   Mintron 62V1P-Ex color security video camera;
   Mintron 13V1C black and white security video camera;
   DMK21AU04.AS planetary imaging monochrome camera
   Panasonic NV-DS50 camcorder (Mini-DV) firewired;
   22 yr old Pentax K-Mount SLR 35mm film camera;
   6 yr old 2400 dpi flatbed scanner.

Camera Lenses:
   Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II (a little plastic fantastic !! )
   Canon EF 200mm f2.8L USM II (very good)
   Pentax K-Mount film 50 mm f/2; (not so good)
   Pentax K-Mount film 28-200 mm zoom f/3.8-f15; and
   RICOM Video CCTV lens f/1.4 (very wide angle);

$EQ 6 Pro Equatorial Mount - Refractor Rig$
Pictured: EQ6 Mount with Orion ED80 and Orion ST80 scopes

Click Here for EQ-6 Mount Details

Click here for Meade LXD-75 Mount and SN-8 Scope Details

On-Scope Accesories:
   Orion Accufocus motorised focuser (very good);
   Telrad 1x finder (you must get one);
   Baader MPCC Coma Corrector; (excellent)
   William Optics x0.8 field flattner/reducer (very good)

Other Accessories include:
   Baader 2" UHC-S Filter (Light Pollution/Contrast);
   Astronomik 1.25" CLS filter (Light Pollution/Contrast);
   2 Stiletto Deluxe focusers (400 lines) - (1 Pentax K-Mount & 1 C-Mount);
   Televue 4x Powermate (corrected barlow);
   Orion Shorty Plus 2x Barlow;
   Filters (polarizer, red, orange, blue, LRGB Astronomik, CLS Astronomik);
   Bahtinov Mask (home made);
   Hartmann / Off-axis Mask (home made);
   Chicken-Wire Diffraction Focusser (home made);
   Dew Shield (home made);
   Dew Zapper (electric corrector plate warmer);
   Pentax K-mount to c-mount adapters (2" & 1.25");
   C-mount 2" and 1.25" adapters and focuser snouts;
   An old 12" PAL Color TV;
   Compaq Evo PC

Software:
   Astrovideo, Registax, MaximDSLR, Cartes du Ciel, MS-FrontPage,
   Cannon Camera Window and Zoom Browser, MS-Image Composer; ACDSee.

Click here for Orion 80ED Refractor Info

$Refractor Setup August 2008$
Picture: LXD-75 carrying the refractor rig (click here)