During the last few years I used some different telescopes. Some of them are selfmade, built by myself with sometimes interesting "features" (remember: "it's not a bug, it's a feature"). A few of the telescopes retired from daily use. I can't sell them because there are emotions connected to them. Those telescopes are marked "historical".
| The "workhorses": | ||
| "Little Dino" | A 16"-Newton, Dobsonian | [ more ... ] |
| C8 on EQ5 | Schmidt-Cassegrain on parallactical mount | [ more ... ] |
| The "historical" telescopes: | ||
| "Der Elfer" | A 4,5"-Newton, parallactical | [ more ... ] | "Die Bleiente" | A 8"-Newton, Dobsonian | [ more ... ] |
Beside visual observing I tale photos. I simply love it to view slides - and by now I also love to take pictures of sun, moon and the planets with the Webcam. This technology is amazing and much better than the old-fashioned way of imaging these objects. With the DSI I'm able to image deep sky objects. This is the photographical equipment:
| chemical | Olympus OM2/SP and Seagull D300 | [ more ... ] |
| Meade DSI | Meade's CCD-camera for the first steps in that technological field | [ more ... ] | Webcam | What is bestter for imaging sun, moon and planets. | [ more ... ] | Video | It has become a historical technology by now, but why delete info? | [ more ... ] |
(c) by Frank Leiter