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Equipment

• Orion Atlas EQ-G (also know as a Skywatcher EQ6)
• GSO 200mm f/4 Newtonian and ST-80 guidescope (tandem)
• DBA Astronomy Certified 10 inch f/5 Newtonian
• Canon 200mm f/2.8L camera lens
• Celestron C8
• Takahashi Sky 90 II
• TEC 140 APO
• Takahashi FS-60C for guiding and wide field imaging
• Soligar 135mm SLR lens for imaging and guiding
• Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 CCD with guide head using Maxim DL/CCD for acquisition
• DMK 21F04 and DMK 21F04.AS IEEE1394 cameras for lunar imaging and autoguiding
• Philips Toucam 740k webcam for planetary imaging
• Philips 900NC webcam for planetary imaging
• Light box for Sky 90

Past Equipment

• Mountain Instrument MI-250 mount using Gemini GOTO system - great mount but bigger than I needed

Software

• Data acquisition and processing done with Maxim DL/CCD.
• Histogram manipulation and noise reduction with PixInsight.
• Final processing with Adobe Photoshop. I find the Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop CS very useful.