| My Equipment |
Telescope: Celestron Celstar C8 F/10Telescope
Eyepieces: Celestron 35mm Ultima, 12.5mm Ultima, 25mm SMA, 12.5mm illuminated reticule, 2x Ultima Barlow
Celestron Extras for Astrophotography: F6.3 focal reducer, Radial Guider, Tele-extender
A sixteen piece set of color filters for planetary viewing and an Orion Skyglow filter for deepsky viewing
Sky Atlas 2000, a set of twenty six charts showing stars down to magnitude 8.0 and thousands of deepsky objects
Lumicon Sky Vector II digital setting circles with a database of the planets, double stars, non stellar objects and over eight thousand deep sky objects such as open and globular star clusters, nebulae and galaxies.
Camera: Pentax SP 500 SLR, 50mm f/1.9 lens, 400mm f/6 Telephoto lens
Binoculars: Bell & Howell 8x40, Simmons 10x50
I have yet to master the use of the Radial Guider for close tolerance guiding and Tele-extender for eyepiece projection.