Telescope and Instruments

Available Telescopes:

• Meade 16" LX-200 GPS, Schmidt-Cassegrain  (picture)
          f-10  focal length 160" (4064 mm)
          fork mount on a permanent equatorial pier
          Digital Finderscope/autoguider  (picture)
              (120mm (4.7") Orion refractor with Orion Starshoot Autoguider)

• Meade 10" LXD-75, Schmidt-Newtonian
          f-4  focal length 40"  (1016 mm)
          German equatorial mount on tripod

• Celestron 5.5" Schmidt Camera
          f-1.65  focal length 9.08"  (231 mm)
              (currently unmounted)

• Orion 80mm (3.1")  Refractor
          f-11.4 focal length 35.8" (910 mm)
          (for solar observing/imaging, includes white light & H-alpha filters)

Available Instruments:

• Apogee AP-47p CCD camera (research camera)
          parallel interface
          1024x1024 pixels,  monochrome
          electrically cooled
          back-illuminated (good Q.E. in the blue)

• Apogee Alta U8300 CCD camera (research camera)
          USB 2.0 interface
          3326 x 2504 pixels, monochrome
          electrically cooled
          Includes 6-position color filter wheel with UBVRI filters

• Canon 350D (Rebel XT) (astrophotography camera)
          USB 2.0 interface
          3456 x 2304 pixels, one shot color

• Starlight Xpress MX916 CCD camera (spectrograph slit & autoguiding)
          USB 2.0 interface
          752 x 580 pixels, monochrome
          electrically cooled
          autoguiding interface

• Shelyak LHIRES III spectrograph
          Includes two gratings:  2400 g/mm (R ~ 14000)  150 g/mm (R ~ 600)