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Jim's Astronomy
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Mr. Jim Hardy.
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Cluster of Stars called M13, In color too.
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Some of the things I have here
are a Canon Digital Rebel D400. I am learning to use the camera and so is the computer. I can take an untold number of exposures at 30 seconds each and stack them to get deep space photo's. More on this later as I learn to use it.
The Telescopes are a Celestron
9.250 inch Schmidt Cassegrain on a Losmandy G11 with Gemini. On this are mounted a small 80mm refractor that I built from a kit at Stellarvue but isn't available anymore. It was almost like starting from scratch to build the thing. I also have a ten inch Orion Newtonian on a LXD75 mount from Meade with Orion tube rings. and, the autostar computer from Meade for hookup to the computer too.
The radio astronomy setup has a
parabolic for the ittybitty telescope called the IBT and IBIRT is an interferometer I built myself and experimented with. The software from SBIG for the SBIG ST-6b are the Sky6-Pro and CCDSoft-5 and CCDops. I have Orchestrate for scripted operations. |
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Also, have Gemini and Automapping programs which interlock with the software to show the mapping for tracking objects
and so on. It's pretty enormous for me. I will post some pictures I take with the CCD Imagers. I have the Meade DSI or deepspace imager in color as well as the same in black and white. I also have a small imager for planetary work but havn't used it. I've used the Meade imagers just to see how they work. I'm in the middle of a move and the observatory is shut down for the move as of Thursday August 7th, 2008. See you on the other side so to speak. |