My childhood interest in Astronomy was re-kindled in October 2003 when I peeked through a friend's telescope during the 2003 Mars opposition. That was the first-ever time I looked through a real telescope. Allowing myself to be overcome with the "fever", I bought my first ever telescope, a 6-inch Orion Deep Space Explorer (a dobsonian), and now I am on my way to becoming a true deep-space astronomer, wife and funds permitting.
Equipment
- Telescope: 6" Orion DSE (dobsonian)
- Eyepieces: 26mm & 10mm plossls, 17mm Highlight plossl, and a 2x Orion Ultima Barlow
- Planetary filter set (6 piece, Celestron)
- Crude home-made setting circles
- Logitech QuickCam Pro (only lens was removed, long exposure modifications to circuit board were not done.)
- Canon Powershot A95
- Canon Digital Rebel XT
Software
- AstroInfo PalmPilot application (I use with setting circles)
- Cartes du Ciel sky chart program
- K3CCD image aquisition software to use with web cam
- RegiStax image processing and stacking software
- Adobe Photoshop
- SkyView Cafe - a neato web based Java app
