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From "My Mount" to "My Scope"
Here is an image of my complete setup at home including my 'observatory/ 'shelter' protecting me from the wind, the streetlight, and neighbour's 'in-security lights'. The setup consists of the Astro mount with a 12 inch, two layered, home made, plywood tube with a homemade finder made from a 50 mm photo copier lens inserted in a plastic tube, plus a Telrad. The 'mini substation' on wheels has a 50 amp battery that, through an inverter, supply power to the mount, ST-4 auto guider,which is attached to another home made scope similar the to the finder and uses a flip mirror with a eye piece. Finally, the Canon 5D full-frame camera, which, after having had to put up with the 3/4 frame 300D for a few years, I just had to have. I bought it secondhand for $2000.00 after the new model came on the market, being used to a Olympus OM-1, and finally, finally the Argo Navis, which I have had for several years, but only just now are being compelled to put into action because of the lousy skies over Sydney and suburbs. PreviouslyI used to star hop in order to locate objects in the sky.In the past the Argo Navis always took me to within 1 degree of my chosen goal, with some more training it will do better. All of this equipment has taking me many years to gather, and all of it, except the ST-4 was purchased secondhand and or made by myself.
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