Equipment List
My Visual and Photographic Equipment
After being asked this on several occasions, I will add photos and maybe articles concerning the equipment listed here. As I cannot say how long this will take, please be patient.
Primary Instrument
Losmandy G-11 German Equatorial Mount (modified)
Astro-Electronic FS2 Scope Control
High-Speed ESCAP Motors
Optical Encoders
Baader Hardwood Tripod (modified)
JMI EZ-Align Polar Scope
Borg 125mm ED f/6.4 - f/4 Refractor
125mm f/6.4 ED Apochromatic Objective
Super Reducer Lens and shorter tube for f/4
4" Helical Focuser
Borg Double-Sided Tube Rings, one Losmandy DUP plate on top, one on bottom
Losmandy 125mm Guidescope Rings
Guidescope: Vixen 90M 90/1000 f/11 Achromatic Refractor
Manfrotto Clamp for Piggyback Mounting on Counterweight Bar
SBIG ST-4 Autoguider
Secondary Instrument
Vixen GP German Equatorial Mount
Vixen SkySensor 2000 PC Scope Control
Vixen MT-4 Motors
Vixen Polar Scope
Photography/Imaging
Nikon F2 Camera Body #7490816
Nikon DW-2 6x Magnifying Viewfinder
Nikkor-H C 50mm f/2.0 Lens #2257124
Nikkor K 105mm f/2.5 Lens #704751
Vignetting-free Borg Camera Adapter for Nikon F2
Standard T-Ring for Nikon F2
Mitsuboshi Knife-Edge Focuser for Nikon F2
Canon EOS 10D Camera Body
Canon EF 17-30mm L f/4.0 Lens
Canon EF 28-70mm L f/2.8 Lens
Canon EF 75-300mm IS f/4-5.6 Lens
Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 Lens
Vignetting-free Borg Camera Adapter for Canon EOS 10D
Standard T-Ring for Canon EOS 10D
Canon Speedlite 550EX
Meade Astrometric Reticle Guiding Eyepiece
Philips ToUcam Pro
Heliopan #29 Deep Red Filter, 77mm dia.
Heliopan Fog Filter, 77mm dia.
Tokai/IDAS Light Pollution Suppression Filter, 82mm dia.
Baffle for reducing Borg 125mm f/4 to f/5
Visual Observation
8" f/6 mirror; used to be a travelscope, now being rebuilt as a solid-tube dobsonian
Widescan II 30mm 2" Eyepiece
Baader 35mm Eudiascopic Eyepiece
Meade 26mm Plössl
Meade 18mm Plössl
Baader 15mm Eudiascopic Eyepiece
Meade 13.8mm Plössl
Misc. Color Filters
Additional Instruments
70/350mm Refractor built using salvaged ETX-70 Optics
Tuned-up Tasco 80/1200 Refractor
75/350mm Skywatcher Achromatic Refractor
Other Telescopes I've Owned
60/700mm Department Store Refractor
Meade ETX AstroScope (90/1250mm)
Meade ETX-90 EC (90/1250mm)
80/1200mm Tasco Refractor
114/900mm Newtonian, Vixen New Polaris Mount
80/400mm Skywatcher Achromatic Refractor
76/700mm Department Store Newtonian
75/500mm Pentax 75SDHF Apochromatic Refractor #7501636
Celestron C8 Schmidt-Cassegrain (200/2000mm)
Intes Micro Alter M-603 (150/1500mm) Maksutov-Cassegrain
