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FLI PL-16803 camera with

65mm shutter

Anti-Dew Technology

FLI Centerline filter wheel with:

Astrodon generation 2 LRGB E-series 50mm square filter set

(includes UV, NIR blocking)

Astrodon 5nm Ha 50mm square filter

Astrodon 5nm OIII 50mm square filter

Astrodon 5nm SII 50mm square filter

FLI Centerline to Proline flange

Precise Parts AP 2.7” to Centerline adapter

guiding

ZWO ASI174MM camera

Astrodon MonsterMOAG off-axis guider (AP 2.7” on both sides)

1.0” x 1¼” extension tube on camera

solar

Imaging Source DFK41AU02.AS color camera (with IR filter)

system

ZWO ASI178MM Mono camera (without IR filter)

Coronado SolarMax 60 Ha filter with T-Max and BF10 (0.7Å)

Daystar Quark Chromosphere Ha filter (0.3-0.6Å)

C mount to 1¼” nosepiece

all sky

Starlight Xpress Oculus camera with 150° fish eye lens

Scopes

high

Planewave 12.5” CDK scope (12’5” aperture, 2541mm focal length, f/8) with

resolution

delta T heater

Electronic Focus Adapter

piggyback dovetail

Alnitak (now Optec) Flat-Man L light “box”

Planewave AP 2.7” extension tube adapter

AP 0.60”, 0.75”, 0.90”, 1.25”, 1.75”, 2.5” extension tubes

Optec 0.5” extension tube

AP standard & short 2” nosepiece adapters

wide

Takahashi FSQ-106 EDX III scope (106mm aperature, 530mm focal length, f/5) with

field

Takahashi focuser and CAA removed

Precise Parts FSQ to Takahashi Auxiliary Ring M92 adapter

Precise Parts Takahashi Auxiliary Ring M92 to AP 2.7” extension tube adapter

FLI Atlas focuser

Mount

AP900 mount with GTOCP3 microcontroller level V, firmware v4.19.2

AP DOVELM162 16” easy balance saddle plate (3 knob style)

AP 900FSA flat surface adapter (fits on flat surface of pier)

AP 900RPA rotating pier adapter (fits between AP 900FSA and AP900)

1 AP 24lb & 3 AP 18lb counter weights (with Planewave scope)

2 AP 18lb counter weights (with FSQ-106 scope)

La Sueur 4¼“ pier (actually have 2 piers for separate locations)

Miscellaneous

Intel NUC computer D54250WYK (i5 at 1.3 Ghz) for image capture with

Hardware

Crucial 8 GB DDR3 memory

Crucial M500 240 GB mSATA drive

4 USB 3.0 ports

1 TB flash drive (U32 Shadow external USB 3.0 hard drive)

speaker

Startech USB 3.0 hub

external port 1

dual band 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n WiFi plus Bluetooth

10/100/1000 ethernet CompuLab Display Emulator

Cable Matters female HDMI to male mini HDMI adapter

Startech 10 port USB 3.0 hub

1 AP900 (with Keyspan USA-19HS 1 port USB 2.0 to serial adapter)

2 Planewave EFA (with Digitus USB 2.0 to serial adapter from Planewave)

3 Planewave heater

4 PL-16803, Centerline

5 THUM temperature probe

6 MGBox temperature probe

7 guide camera

8 unused

9 external port 2

10 external port 3 (sky quality meter)

Unihedron Sky Quality Meter

measures sky ‘darkness’

THUM

monitor temperature, humidity

MGBox V2

monitor temperature, pressure, humidity, GPS

Hotech Advanced CT Laser Collimator

scope collimation

Alnitak Flip-Flat

electroluminescent flat device for FSQ-106

Alnitak Flat-Man L

electroluminescent flat device for Planewave

TeleGizmos 365 series cover 170”x56”

mount placed at park 1 position

Primary

64 bit Windows 10

Operating system

Software

ASCOM 6.6 plus:

AstroPhysics V2 5.30.10

AP900 ASCOM driver

APCC Pro 1.9.4.3

AP900 pointing & tracking correction

MGBox ASCOM v1.6

MGBox driver for APCC

MaxIm DL Pro 6.28 plus

currently used only for calibration

CCDPlugFingerLakes 1.2.3.0

Interface to FLI hardware

PinPoint 6.1c

Plate solve used by MaxIm

ASTAP

Plate solve used by NINA

PWI 3.5.5

control Planewave focus, fans, heater

PHD2 2.6.11

guider

TheSkyX 10.5.0.13243 plus plugin:

planetarium & control scope

X2AscomTelescope 1.0.2

interface to AP900 ASCOM driver

NINA 2.0

Image capture

CCDStack 2.95

align/stack/stretch & build RGB

eXcalibrator 6.2

color balance

Photoshop CS6 64 bit plus plugins/actions:

Russell Croman’s GradientXTerminator 1.4.1

remove light gradients

Russell Croman’s StarShrink 1.2.0

shrink stars

Russell Croman;s StarXTerminator 1.2.2

remove stars

Russell Croman’s NoiseXTerminator 1.1.0

remove noise

Topaz DeNoise AI 3.7.0

remove noise

Rogelio Bernal Andreo’s HLVG

remove green coloring

Rogelio Bernal Andreo’s WhiteCal

color balance

Support

Sky Tools Professional 4.0j R20

session planning

Software

CCDCalc 1.4.15

session planning

PEMPro 3.00.27

mount maintenance

SQM Reader Pro 3.2.1.0

Sky Quality monitor

SharpCap 4.0.8718

polar alignment

CCDInspector 2.5.3

scope collimation, CCDStack plugin

PixInsight 1.8.8-7

image processing

AutoStakkert 3.1.4

planetary image processing

RegiStax 6.0

Planetary image processing

Real VNC

remote control

Radmin 3.5

remote control

Note: Like every other amateur astronomer, I’ve acquired gobs of scopes, cameras, eyepieces, software, and miscellaneous stuff over many years including several scopes, CCD cameras and CMOS video cameras. The above list, although intended to be detailed & complete, only includes the equipment I currently use for imaging.

Planewave imaging train :
12.5” Planewave scope with Hedrick focuser
Planewave AP 2.7” adapter
AP 0.6” extension tube
Astrodon AP 2.7” to MMOAG adapter (included with MMOAG)
Astrodon MMOAG
	helical focuser train :
	1” extension tube
	SBIG 1¼” to T mount nosepiece
	SBIG ST-402 camera
Astrodon MMOAG to AP 2.7” adapter (included with MMOAG)
AP 1.25” extension tube
Precise Parts AP 2.7” to Centerline adapter (length 0.078”)
FLI Centerline filter wheel
FLI Centerline to Proline flange
FLI Proline 16803 camera

FSQ 106 imaging train :

FSQ 106 EDX III scope with focuser & CAA removed (extension tube remains on scope)

Precise Parts FSQ-106ED/EDX II/III (no focuser) to Tak Auxiliary Ring M92 (length 3.0”)

Precise Parts Tak Auxiliary Ring M92 to AP 2.7” extension tube (length 0.736”)

AP 0.90” extension tube

AP 1.75” extension tube

FLI AD58 AP 2.7” to Atlas adapter

FLI Atlas focuser (focus point ~63,000 to 70,000 units out of 105,000)

FLI AD62 Atlas to Centerline adapter

FLI Centerline filter wheel

FLI Centerline to Proline flange

FLI Proline 16803 camera