Imaging Highlights

Technical

• The Cheapo-Bino

• Tuning the LIDL

• The Suspicious Red-Light

• Dimming a Red-Dot Finder

• H-EQ5 Polar Scope Illumination

• Bellow-Cam Mk 1 (Vesta pro)

• Bellow-Cam Mk 2 (QC4000pro)

• Bellow-Cam Mk 2 SC, Long-Exposure Modification of the QC-4000 pro

• Bellow-Cam Mk 2 SC GT

• Long-Exposure Modification of the ToUCam pro

• LX Gizmo-Cam

• Alt/Az Data Analysis

• Thoughts on Imaging

ETX stuff

• External Power Supply for the ETX70

• Fix the white bolt in the ETX-70

• ETX-70 AZ-lever

• Get rid of ETX-90's reflex

• Longer AutoStar cable

Observations

• Preface (observation conditions)

• The new site

• Observations using the wide angle camera

• Open Stellar Clusters

• Observations (ETX-70)

• Observations (SK8035)

• Observations (SK15075)

• The Double Cluster (ETX-70)

• M11 study (ETX-70)

• Messier Object M42 - Feb. 23rd 2004 (Rijswijk)

• Planets & Co.

• Stars (Albireo only at present)

• Aurora borealis Oct. 30th-31st 2003 (Rijswijk)

• Sun in Hydrogen-α

• Sun Oct. 26th 2003

• Lunar eclipse Nov. 2003

Equipment

Cameras

• Olympus C-2020Z

• Philips ToUCam pro

• LogiTech QC-4000 pro

• Homebrew setup for M42 objectives

Binoculars

• Luxon "Durbuy" 7x50 6.6° (BaK4 prisms)

• Minolta Classic Sport 12x50WP 5.5° (BaK4 prisms)

• Canon 10x30 IS 6° (Image Stabilizer)

• Homemade Cheapo-Bino

Telescopes

• TAL-M

• Bresser Pluto

• Luxon "Astro" (70mm f/5)

• Meade ETX-70AT

• SkyLux 70mm f/10 (The LIDL)

• Skywatcher SK8035 (80mm f/4.4)

• Skywatcher SK80ED (80mm f/7.5)

• Skywatcher SK1206 (120mm f/5)

• Meade ETX-90EC

• Celestron Nexstar 4gt

• Meade ETX-125

• SkyWatcher SK15075 (150mm f/5)

• Helios Dobsonian (200mm f/5)

• Coronado PST

Links

• Steve Chambers' page

• The NGC/IC Project

• Weasner's ETX site