My instruments today….

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First of all a short list of all the instruments I own today:

Optical tubes:

  • Vixen 102M
  • Skywatcher Mak 90
  • Celestron 70 mm refractor
  • TS Photoline 72mm f/6 doublet Fpl53/Lanthanum
  • Tecnosky 60mm f/6 doublet
  • Celestron C5
  • Askar FMA180Pro

Mounts:

  • Vixen Great Polaris with Astrogadget EQStarPro
  • Skywatcher AZ GTi with equatorial firmware
  • Vixen Polarie

Cameras:

  • Canon D550
  • Canon D600 full spectrum
  • ZWO ASI 224MC used for planetary photo and guiding
  • ZWO ASI 585MC used for deep sky imaging

I use a HP laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800u for planetary image acquisition and a Mele N100 minipc for the control of the mount and camera control (all is remotely controlled with an Android tablet and a remote desktop connection).

TS APO 72 reduced to f/4.8 on Vixen GP mount with EQStarPRO. 32 mm guiding scope, ASI 224 and Canon D600
Askar FMA180PRO on the AZGTi in equatorial configuration, with 32mm guiding scope, ASI 224 and ASI 585MC as imaging camera (here not reported)
Tecnosky APO 60 reduced to f/4.8 on the Vixen Polarie with ASI 585MC as imaging camera
Askar FMA180PRO on the Vixen Polarie with the ASI 585MC imaging camera

Software for Deep Sky imaging:

  • Astrophotography Tool (APT)
  • PHD2
  • Stellarium
  • ASTAP for plate solving
  • Skywatcher SynScan Pro

Software for Planetary imaging

  • sharcap
  • ASI tools
  • Skywatcher SynScan Pro

Software for Deep Sky processing:

  • Astropixel processor
  • Graxpert
  • Siril
  • Affinity photo

Software for Planetary image processing:

  • Astrosurface
  • Winjupos
  • PIPP
  • SER Player