Over the years, I've worked with several telescopes and different types of imaging equipment. Most of my images were captured in Ringgold, Ga but I occasionally hit the road and set up my equipment at Winter Star Parties (Florida, Texas, etc.) or on Clingman's Dome in the Great Smokey Mountains.
Telescope
Unless otherwise noted, my images have been captured with an Astro-physics 7" f/9.
Camera
I've used various cameras depending on the goals of the photos and capabilities of the camera. Some examples include:
- SBIG ST-4: Used on Comet S/L9 impact on Jupiter image. 2 second exposure at f/120.
- SBIG ST-5: Used on Lunar Straight Wall and Mars image.
- SBIG ST-8: Used on most deep sky and comet images.
Mounting and drive corrector My mounting was custom built by Edward Byers with a 11 5/16" RA gear and a tangent arm for declination. Drive corrector is a microprocessor controlled unit of my own design and construction. The drive system frequently exhibits less than 2 arc-secs of periodic error for exposures of up to 60 minutes. Image processing Processing was done with SBIG's CCDOPS and mosaic combining and unsharp masking was done with Adobe Photoshop.
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