Black River Observatory
Galaxies
Nebula
Solar System
SkyCam
Aurora
Equipment
Here are pictures of my C-11 imaging rig rebuild. To be continued.
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| Rig Before Rebuild | Corrector Cell Painted | Custom Filtered Air Outlets |
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| Rear Cel l Assembled | Custom Mirror Lock Installed | Fans Assembled |
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| Mirror Cleaned | Fans Mounted | C11 Assembled |
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| WO80 Cleaned | Rig From Back | Rig From Front |
SkyCam
My equipment includes:
Celestron C-11 scope with many custom modifications.
WO-80ZS refractor scope for imaging and guiding. Remote focusing via RoboFocus.
Losmandy G-11 mount with FS-2 goto system with ESCAP micro-stepping motors.
ST2000XM imager with 237 guide chip
SX LoadStar guide camera.
CFW-8 filter wheel with A-Don LRGB filter set and Astronomik 13nm Ha filter.
Optec TCF-S focuser
Optec 0.5 focal reducer
Modified Celestron 0.63 focal reducer
I use the following software for scope control and image aquisition:
WinXP Pro
Remote Desktop
The Sky 6
CCDSoft 5
T-Point
I use the following software for image processing and remote access to observatory over network:
WinXP Pro
Remote Desktop
MaximDL CCD 3.21
Corel Paint 9
Celestron C-11 scope with many custom modifications.
WO-80ZS refractor scope for imaging and guiding. Remote focusing via RoboFocus.
Losmandy G-11 mount with FS-2 goto system with ESCAP micro-stepping motors.
ST2000XM imager with 237 guide chip
SX LoadStar guide camera.
CFW-8 filter wheel with A-Don LRGB filter set and Astronomik 13nm Ha filter.
Optec TCF-S focuser
Optec 0.5 focal reducer
Modified Celestron 0.63 focal reducer
I use the following software for scope control and image aquisition:
WinXP Pro
Remote Desktop
The Sky 6
CCDSoft 5
T-Point
I use the following software for image processing and remote access to observatory over network:
WinXP Pro
Remote Desktop
MaximDL CCD 3.21
Corel Paint 9
This section under construction...