Equipment I No Longer Own

Meade 12" LX-200 on a Superwedge. For CCD imaging from light polluted skies having a GOTO mount is essential to imaging faint, small objects. The optics were very good and pointing accuracy of this scope was excellent. When linked with The Sky and calibrated with TPoint, software from Software Bisque I could put virtually any object on my old CCD camera's chip (an ST7E). Unfortunately, recalibrating TPoint each time takes a lot of time so I spent more time taking images with my Takahashi FS-128! Now I have an AP1200 Goto mount on the way so I am sold this scope to buy a second OTA (first is my FS-128 described below) for the 1200 mount. 

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AstroPhysics 900 QMD mount. I received my 1200 Goto mount in early October 1999 so I sold this mount soon after. The mount was simply superb and is now in the hands of Joe Marietta who has already used it to do some great imaging with his Astrophysics 6" refractor and SBIG ST-7E camera! With the 900 mount, my Takahashi 5" refractor, and my SBIG ST-8E or old ST-7E CCD cameras and CFW-8 color wheel, I've also taken some good images (IMHO!).

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8" F/6 Orion Dobsonian. This scope brought me back into Astronomy 5 years ago. Wasn't using it much so I sold it to a friend for his kid to use.

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8" F/10 Homemade Newtonian. Not Pictured. Used a 1/20th wave Astrosital primary, a Quartz 1" secondary, and curved spider veins. It was a very nice planetary scope but needed a very long tube!