The
Universe Today - From the Pinetree Observatory
The Sun
The Moon
The Planets
Comets & Small Solar
System Bodies
Messier Objects
NGC & IC Objects
Events, Widefield & Montages
Stars
Telescopes, Equipment &
Observatories
My
Astro-photographs are taken with scopes from an 8 inch and 5 inch
Skywatcher reflectors,
an Evostar 80ED refractor, a 3 inch Celestron reflector, & Lunt LS50THa
Solar Scope. For deep sky images, I have a QHY163M Cooled camera, an Astro-modded Canon
1100D and Nikon D3200. For Solar, Lunar and planets, I have two
ASI120MM's, an ASI120MM-S and ASI120MC-S and a ZWO filter wheel.
The old observatory had an NEQ6 Pro GOTO mount, and I have a motorised EQ2 for a
mobile set up.
Guiding is via a TS 9mm
Off-Axis Guider, and a Lodestar Autoguider camera.From
2012 to 2020, I lived in a town, with a light pollution level of 8 to 9 on the
Bortle Dark Sky Scale. In 2021 I moved to a village with a Bortle 5
rating.
