Equipment
The observatory was completed in late fall, 2013. It is pictured here in Spring 2014, after its first painting but prior to landscaping.
Some older images here were obtained using Canon camera lenses on a Losmandy G-11 mount. The observatory made it practical to use larger telescopes. Of the two Takahashi refractors pictured here, only one remains. The small FSQ-106EDXIII has the SBIG ST-8300M CCD camera mounted on it, long since replaced with an STL11002 mono CCD. The Takahashi TOA-150 in the image below was sold in Spring, 2022. The TOA-150 is shown on the Astro-Physics 1600GTO equatorial mount.
The largest instrument in use is the 14.5" f/6.7 iDK by AG Optics shown immediately below with the FSQ piggybacked atop it.
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