Equipment

Details of the observatory site, the equipment, and some of the observatory history are shown on these image pages. The primary research instrument is a Meade 16" LX200 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope. The camera is an SBIG ST-10XE with a CFW-10 color filter wheel. Guiding is done with an externally-mounted 5" Meade refractor with a DSI-Pro camera and using PHD Guiding software. More equipment details are included on the individual image pages. There are separate pages describing the history of the site.