![]() ![]() The ZWO camera is monochrome and uses a filter wheel with LRGB and narrowband filters (Ha, OIII, SII) to produce color images. For astrophotography he uses an unmodified Nikon D800e or a ZWO ASI2600mm Pro camera. ![]() For visual use he has an assortment of eyepieces. Both scopes are used on a Celestron CGEM DX mount. The largest one is an IStar 150mm f8 (1200mm fl) refractor telescope and the smallest is a SkyWatcher 200mm f4 Quattro Astrograph. Larry’s equipment consists of two telescopes. ![]() In 2016 he purchased his first telescope and started visual astronomy.Ī couple of years later he started to take photographs with the telescope and has been learning how to photograph objects in the night sky. Larry is a long time landscape and wildlife photographer. My camera is then attached to the HyperStar. I also have the HyperStar 8 which attaches to the front of the telescope by removing the secondary mirror which takes me to f 1.9 from the normal f 10 of an SCT or the f 6.3 with a reducer. My camera is the ASI294MC Pro Color which has a wide FOV which makes it easier to find objects in the sky although it is overkill on small objects like galaxies. My equipment other than the telescope consist of the ASIAIR Pro which is more or less the brains of the system which is used to find objects, plate solve the objects, & live stack the photos. Same thing can be said about my ZWO equipment. I try to learn more about my camera using what others do and say about the camera online. Using you can see what others are looking at and using their photos to find things that I think I would like to see. My main object starting out with a camera is to photograph all the Messier objects. Galaxies are better in photos than in an eyepiece though. Open clusters are nice to look at but doesn’t do much in photos. With EAA (Electronically Assisted Astronomy) you have two options, you can take pictures of anything you like or you can just use the camera to look at 20 objects in a night session. More detail can be seen from my back yard than I could ever see with an eyepiece. You really can see more with a camera than with an eyepiece. I also owned a 82mm binocular telescope for a while, but after a while I wanted to see things a little closer so I purchased an 8 inch telescope, then a different 8” telescope. My equipment now is a Celestron Evolution 8 with 5 Explore Scientific eyepieces which I haven’t used now in the 5 months since I started using a camera to see the sky objects. I am in my 70’s, am retired accountant who started my astronomy hobby when I retired out here in Arizona in 2000 although I did have one of those department type telescopes when I was in Junior High School in Indiana. ![]()
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