I have been operating the 10Micron GM1000 HPS mount with my APM 6 inch refractor since beginning of November 2015. It is a superbly well engineered and extremely accurate mount.
Continue reading…New 10Micron GM1000 HPS equatorial mounting
I am now experimenting with a short focal length 60mm refractor for wide field imaging having given up on camera lenses. This is the Telescope Service Photoline 60mm compact apochromatic
Continue reading…TS Photoline 60mm FPL-53 doublet for wide field imaging
My experiments using camera lenses for wide field deep sky astrophotography are coming to a close. I am not satisfied with the quality of images acquired. The main issue I
Continue reading…Wide field deep sky astrophotography using camera lenses
I use an external guidescope and camera to guide the PlaneWave CDK 12.5 at AstroCamp. The initial set-up using a 60mm F/3.8 guidescope and Lodestar guider did not provide enough
As of January 2013 I am now using a Starlight Xpress SXVR-H9 monochrome camera for guiding in conjunction with my Starlight Xpress Active Optics (AO) unit. The H9 camera uses
Continue reading…Active Optics guiding with SXVR-H9 monochrome camera
I am just back from a four day visit to the AstroCamp observatory in the mountains of S.E. Spain where I finalised the installation of my PlaneWave CDK 12.5 telescope.
Continue reading…PlaneWave CDK 12.5 operational at AstroCamp
In January 2012 I upgraded to an SBIG ST-10XME CCD camera and at the same time purchased a Starlight Xpress SXV-AO-LF active optics unit to improve guiding accuracy. The ST-10XME
This was the setup for my imaging train during 2010-2011. The imaging camera is the Atik 314L+. The camera is based on the sensitive Sony ExView ICX285AL sensor with a
This is my primary telescope – a William Optics Megrez 120mm F/7.5 APO refractor. It uses a very high quality Japanese Ohara FPL-53 fluorite glass doublet lens with excellent colour