Thursday, May 24, 2012

Equipment setup

This is our solar observing platform.  It includes the following components:

  • A120mm Skywatcher Pro apochromatic refractor (affectionately known as Luna), with BAADER solar filter from Kendrick Astro Instruments
  • A 60mm Solarmax II with a double-stack hydrogen-alpha filter (affectionately known as Stella)
  • A Losmandy tandem arm dove-tail array
  • A CGM equatorial mount clock drive with NexSTAR computer tracking
  • A field tripod
When fully assembled we weigh more than 50 Kg!!!


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