Equipment
| Primary Deep Sky Imaging setup: RC Optical Systems Carbon Truss 24" (0.61M) Telescope with Ion Milled f/7.8 optics. The system has a peak-to-valley wavefront variation of 0.1 wave, 0.021 RMS, and an approximate Strehl Ratio of 0.983. The telescope is carried by an RCOS Professional Series Equatorial Fork Mount. SBIG STL6303E and STL11000M, SBIG AO-L, AstroDon MOAG-A off- axis guider, L-R-G-B-SII-Ha-O[III] filters for RGB and narrowband imaging and C-UV-B-V-R-I-g'-r'-i'-CBB-NIR Lum filters for photometry. Wide field imaging: AP 155EDF 4" Field Flattener, AP 0.76xTelecompressor/Flattener, Solar: Baader Herschel Wedge; Solar Spectrum SO1.5 <0.3A Ha Filter and 155mm Baader ERF. Planetary: Celestron C-14, FLEA-3, Lumenera LU165C and Homeyer motorized filter wheel. L/UV/IRpass/R/G/B. SBIG Seeing Monitor SBIG Allsky Camera Boltwood Cloud Sensor RCOS Mirror Cleaning and Re-coating Click here for a view of my Earlier Equipment. |
Click on image below for
telescope pointing models
using Tpoint.
telescope pointing models
using Tpoint.
Field of View Comparison
Click on image above
for collimation data.
Click HERE for polar
alignment info.
for collimation data.
Click HERE for polar
alignment info.
Seeing Monitor
RCOS 24
installed
November
11, 2011.
installed
November
11, 2011.
Click on
image to left
for flat
panel
installations
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for flat
panel
installations
