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See the Hampshire Astronomical Group (HAG) website
for details of HAG telescopes referenced in images.

My Equipment

Telescopes

SkyWatcher Quattro 250P (10" f/4 Newtonian reflector):
   SkyWatcher 80T f/5 guide scope
   Motorised focuser
   Orion 9x50 Finder

Altair-Astro StarWave 102-ED f/7 refractor (4")
   with Planostar 2" 0.8x Flattener/Reducer (to f/5.6)
SkyWatcher 102 (4") f/5 Refractor
Swallow 60mm (2.4") Terrestrial spotter scope
   (18x - 60x zoom)

ZWO Seestar S50 smart telescope

Mount

SkyWatcher EQ6 mount with SkyScan GOTO drives
   (with ASCOM control interface)
   Interchangeable Tripod or Pier mounting
   Losmandy dovetail upgrade

Eyepieces etc.

2" Televue Nagler 13mm
2" UltraWide 30mm
2" Revelation 26mm
2" Revelation 2x Barlow
2" Skywatcher F/4 Aplanatic Super Coma Corrector (for Quattro)
1.25" Rigel 18mm Wide angle Plossl eyepiece
1.25" Meade 4000 Series 6.4mm Super Plossl
1.25" Meade 4000 Series 9mm Illuminated Reticule Plossl
1.25" SkyWatcher 25mm & 10mm eyepieces
1.25" SkyWatcher 7-22mm Zoom eyepiece
1.25" Revelation Astro 5x Barlow
1.25" Antares 1.5x & 2x Barlow
1.25" Antares 0.5x focal reducer
Revelation Laser Collimator

Camera equipment

ZWO ASI183MM mono cooled CMOS imaging camera
ZWO ASI120MC colour planetary imaging camera
SBIG ST-8300M mono cooled CCD imaging camera
Altair GPCAM1 130 mono guide camera
Starlight Express Lodestar guide camera
Canon 700D DSLR (18MP)
Canon 700D DSLR (18MP), modified (IR filter removed)
   both with 1.25" and 2" T-adaptors
   18-270mm zoom lens for above
Logitech C600 Webcam (2MP)
Phillips SPC900NC Webcam (0.3MP)

Filters

Starlight Express 7 position USB filter holder with:
   Baader 35mm R, G, B, L, Hα, OIII, SII filters
Star Analyser 100 diffraction grating (for imaging spectra)
Astronomik CLS clip filter for Canon DSLR
2" OVL light pollution filter
1.25" Astronomik CLS light pollution filter
1.25" Baader High Contrast filter
102mm Baader Film solar filter:
   (Home made for SkyWatcher 102 - full aperture
   with adapters use with 6" and 10" telescopes)

Finder Scopes

Meade 6x30 Finder
Orion 9x50 Finder
Red dot finder

Software

MaximDL
CCDSoft (SBIG)
Stellarium
   (with telescope control using EQASCOM/StellariumScope)
Cartes du Ciel
   (with telescope control using EQASCOM)
SharpCap Pro
APT - Astro Photography Tool
Corel Paint Shop Pro
Adobe Photoshop CS6
StarStax
Sequator
RSpec (Real time Spectroscopy)
RegiStax
Virtual Moon Atlas

Bigger pictures and other equipment images here


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