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My Main Telescope - C14 and Paramount ME

My new Paramount MyT and 8-inch Ritchey-Chretien Telescope

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My Meade 12 inch SCT on a CGEM (Classic) Mount

My 4 inch Meade Refractor with Sky Watcher Guidescope and ZWO camera on a CGEM (Classic) Mount

Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mount with Canon 40D

 

My Solar setup using a DSLR and Mylar Filter on my ETX90

DSLR attached to ETX90. LiveView image of 2015 partial eclipse on Canon 40D

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 I try to log my observing and related activities in a regular blog - sometimes there will be a delay but I usually catch up. An index of all my blogs is on the main menu at the top of the page with daily, weekly or monthly views. My Twitter feed is below. I am also interested in photograping wildlife when I can and there is a menu option above to look at some of my images. I try to keep the news feeds from relevant astronomical sources up to date and you will need to scroll down to find these.

The Celestron 14 is mounted on a Paramount ME that I have been using for about 10 years now - you can see that it is mounted on a tripod so is a portable set up. I still manage to transport it on my own and set it all up even though I have just turned 70! It will run for hours centering galaxies in the 12 minute field even when tripod mounted.

 

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JOIN THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY

If you are at all interested in the history of astronomy why not join the Society (SHA). There is a fantastic programme of events. This year included a visit to Paris at the invitation of the French Astronomical Society with special access to astronomical resources for our members - they will be coming here on a return visit on 2019 and probably staying in an Oxford College along with our members who attend. The Spring conference this year was held at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy. The recent publication - Bulletin 28 - illustrated the events on the front cover. Although the membership includes Oxford and Cambridge and other University professors, most of the membership are amateurs with an interest in the history of astronomy. Join now!

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