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High all !
I am a new member to the APML. I leave about 30 km
south of Vienna/Austria, where it is still to much light pollution for real long
exposured images. So I need to drive about an hour from home to get quite good
conditions.
I'm doing astrophotography since 1997, but the
first 2 years my equipment wasn't good enough for real
astrophotography.
Since I bought the VIXEN GPDX mount my images get better. In 2000 I bought a second hand 6"-Newton with f/4.3. It is from Chicago Optical and Supply CC, Model 150DX, a company no one knows here in Austria. It is designed for photographic work, due to its bigger secondary and 2"-focuser. I got a suitable coma corrector, which is working very well. This was my entry to real deep sky work. Most of my images on my homepage were done with this scope. Since August 2001 I own a VIXEN VC200L. This is a
great scope for photographic work, with a flat field up to the corners of 35mm
film. I bought the focal reducer for this scope and tried some images with a
guiding scope. But mounting the guiding scope to the tube of the VC200L doesn't
work, due to the weakness of the tube. So I tried some pictures with full focal
length, shown on my homepage. For working with the reducer I need some mounting
rings, which are under construction.
You can see my images at:
Coments are wellcome,
Manfred
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