Star Cruiser Bill's ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY


Equipment

    Dual Rig Configuration of Stellarvue SVQ100 and SV80ST               
  rear view


 front



Feathertouch Focuser on ES127 ED APO
camera/focuser
           
StellaLyra 8" F/5 Newtonian Reflector with QHY268C or QHY268M
                
front


Meade 10" F/8 LX850 on Orion HDX110/EQ8 Mount


 

         
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Main Telescope:
Meade 10" LX850/F8,  StellaLyra 10" F4, StellaLyra 8"/F5,  Explore Scientific 127mm/F7.5 ED APO, Stellarvue SVQ100 f/5.8
Guide Telescope:
Orion Short Tube 80mm F/5
Widefield:
Williams Optics Star71 F/4.9, Stellarvue SV80ST
Guidescope Aiming:
Robin Casady's TGAD (Tandem Guidescope Aiming Device). This device is very well designed and machined, and it does it's job perfectly.  **Production ended 2014.
Guiding Camera:
Orion SSAG, ZWOASI120MC
Cameras:
QHY16200A, QHY268C, QHY268M, QHY168C, ZWOASI017C
Focusers

Starlight Instruments Feather Touch FTF-3025B, Moonlite. GSO
Filter Wheels:

Starlight Xpress 5x2", Orion 4x2".
Mount:

Orion HDX110/EQ8, Losmandy G11T
Observatory

Explora-Dome 8'
Software

NINA, Pixinsight, PHD2 Guiding