What is your Imaging scope?

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Nigel_Choy
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What is your Imaging scope?

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Just wanted to know what scope are you using for imaging?
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andeelym
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Post by andeelym »

Meade LX50 8" SCT for lunar and planetary and AT65EDQ for widefield and DSOs.
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Nigel_Choy
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Post by Nigel_Choy »

Is the AT65EDQ an Apo or archo scope?
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andeelym
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Post by andeelym »

Apo.

It also doubles up as my travel scope as well as guidescope.
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Favourite scope: Takahashi FSQ85EDX
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nice...
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shirox
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Favourite scope: Takahashi FSQ85EDX
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Apochromatic quadruplet ED refractor
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timatworksg
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WO Megrez88SD or WO ZS66FD (depending on what and how I wish to image) guided with Baader Vario 10x60 Finderscope.
Using just a Orion Starshoot DSCI for imaging and the trusty Meade DSI for guiding, couple of focal reducers and filter wheel. Sometimes if I wanna go super wide I just go DSLR..lol!
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Post by Nigel_Choy »

How good is the Meade DSI guiding? And where did you get the quadroplet scope from?
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timatworksg
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Post by timatworksg »

Well I don't have a quad...so I leave that to andeelym. All yours bro!!

As for the Meade DSI...it makes a wonderful guide cam. Being made for long exposure Astro Imaging it captures stars well enough for guiding through 50mm finderscopes.

Here's a DIY guidescope I made some time back with a cheap 50mm bino lens.
http://www.singastro.org/viewtopic.php?t=8363

A better lens would make a lot of difference but it works. I now use a 60mm finderscope which throws me lots of guidestars. So any low-cost Astro ccd cam always makes a nice guide cam being dedicated for long exposures, as it's more sensetive even at 1s exposure compared to a normal webcam(unless modded) or DSLR.
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Post by andeelym »

From Optcorp: http://www.optcorp.com/product.aspx?pid ... 65edq&st=2
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