Driveway Astronomy

The Universe as Seen from a Suburban Backyard

Equipment

My equipment is all portable and must be set up (and taken down late, late at night) for each session:

  • Meade LX90 8" SCT telescope on standard Meade wedge
  • William-Optics Zenithstar 66 SD refractor telescope
  • CCD-Labs Q453HR one-shot camera
  • Starlight Xpress MX716 CCD camera with USB2 (sold)
  • Meade DSI Pro for guiding 
  • Toucam webcam
  • Meade 6.3 and 3.3 Reducers
  • Atik manual filter wheel (sold)
  • True Technology Micro Filter Unit
  • Astronomik Type II RGB and clear filters  (sold)
  • Schuler Ha Filter (sold)
  • AstroArt 3 software for image acquisition, guiding and processing
  • AIP4WIN software for processing
  • PixInsight software for postprocessing
  • GIMP 2 software for postprocessing
  • Deep Sky Stacker for preprocessing
  • Nebulosity for image acquisition 
  • PHD Guiding software