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Equipment

• Orion Sirius GEM
• Astro-Physics Mach1 with Losmandy HD Tripod
• SXV-H9 ccd camera
• ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool with EFW8
• ZWO ASI120MM-S - lunar and planetary and guide camera
• SXV Lodestar - OAG guide camera
• Stellarvue SV70T + reducer
• TS ONTC 8 inch f/4 Newtonian with GPU/Skywatcher Coma Corrector
• Williams Optics WO66 66mm Doublet + 0.8x reducer
• 14 inch f/5 Dobsonian
• DBA Astronomy Certified 10 inch f/5 Newtonian
• Celestron C8
• Denver Observing Chair
• Polar scope webcam adapter
• Light box for small refractors

Past Equipment

• ZWO ASI174MM
• Orion SSAG - guide camera for finder guider
• Astro-Tech AT8RC and Astro-Physics CCD67 reducer
• Orion Atlas EQ-G (also know as a Skywatcher EQ6)
• Takahashi NJP GEM
• Mountain Instrument MI-250 mount using Gemini GOTO system - great mount but bigger than I needed
• GSO 200mm f/4 Newtonian and ST-80 guidescope (tandem)
• Takahashi Sky 90
• Takahashi FS-60C
• TEC 140 APO
• Canon 200mm f/2.8L camera lens
• DMK 21F04 and DMK 21F04.AS IEEE1394 cameras for lunar imaging and autoguiding
• FLI ML8300 CCD
• SBIG ST8300
• Philips Toucam 740k webcam for planetary imaging
• Philips 900NC webcam for planetary imaging

Software

• Data acquisition done with Ekos/INDI
• Guiding with PHD2
• Most processing with PixInsight.
• Occasional post-processing with Adobe Photoshop CS3.