Pete's Imaging Setup 2004

My co-observer and fellow nutter, Pete, is the proud owner of a somewhat larger telescope than me.

1992 250mm F10 Meade LX200. Focal length 2500mm
Camping mat dew shield
Toaster Dew Heater
Homemade steel wedge, design by Arthur Edwards
Steel pier on concrete base.

82mm catadioptric SLR lens for guidescope. Focal Length 500mm

RAW mode SC1 Toucam 840 with AMP OFF. Mounted in box. Prime focus imaging camera

RAW mode SC1 Toucam 840. Mounted in air box. Guiding camera.

What is this RAW mode?

Focal Ratio Modifiers:
2x Barlow
0.6 Meade Reducer
0.3 Meade Reducer

Filters:
RGB
IRB
OIII

Jeulin grating for spectrums.

Telrad finder
Toshiba 1.8GHz laptop 40GB 256MB

This computer is linked on my home wireless network.

Software:
K3ccdtools
Registax
Photoshop
AVIRaw
GuideDog

Page last updated 2005-09-14