Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 2:28
AM
Subject: [APML] New member
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