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This was my first telescope in nearly 30 years.  It is a the DS114 from Meade.   It is a good beginners scope.  With it you can see the rings of Saturn and the cloud rings of Jupiter


My pride and joy is my LX10.  It is an 8" SCT.  I really enjoy using the scope.  It provides great views and is a major improvement over the DS114.

SATURN1.jpg (14236 bytes)     Taken with my LX10 8" and a Olympus C3020Z digital camera with 14mm Meade Series 4000 ep with a Scopetronix Digi-T adapter.  Taken in Orange County California 9/22/02 with rather poor seeing conditions.  Single Image

SATURN2.jpg (8811 bytes)Taken with my LX10 8" and a Olympus C3020Z digital camera with 14mm Meade Series 4000 ep with a Scopetronix Digi-T adapter.  Taken in Orange County California 9/22/02 with rather poor seeing conditions.  Single Image
SATURN3.jpg (8983 bytes)Taken with my LX10 8" and a Olympus C3020Z digital camera with 14mm Meade Series 4000 ep with a Scopetronix Digi-T adapter.  Taken in Orange County California 9/22/02 with rather poor seeing conditions.  Single Image
JUP1.jpg (4885 bytes)Taken with my LX10 8" and a Olympus C3020Z digital camera with 14mm Meade Series 4000 ep with a Scopetronix Digi-T adapter.  Taken in Orange County California 9/15/02 with rather poor seeing conditions.  Single Image
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Taken at prime focus with my LX10 8" SCT with a f6.3 focal reducer and Fuji Provia 400F slide film.  Exposure was about 12 minutes from my back yard in Orange County, California on 11/24/02.  This is actually a scan from a print I had made from the side.  There is significant degradation in the quality of the image from the side to the print and additional degradation from the print to the scanned image.
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Taken at prime focus with my LX10 8" SCT with a f6.3 focal reducer and Fuji Provia 400F slide film.  Image on the left has no modification and the image on the right was level adjusted in photoshop to eliminate some of the sky glow effects and bring out more of the color.  Exposure was about 20 minutes from my back yard in Orange County, California on 11/24/02.  As with the previous photo this is a scan of a print from the slide.  Seeing conditions were fairly poor that night with lots of sky glow form the lights in my neighborhood.