My instruments can be divided in fixed and portable ones. My Schmidt camera, due to the dimensions and weigth is not portable, while all the other, somehow, are portable under dark skys on the mountains. My principal instruments are a Newton 310mm f/5 and a Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope 20cm f/10, mounted on a Gemini G-41, a german equatorial mount with an FS2 goto controller. For the SC I've substituted the original fork mount model 2080 of 1993 because I needed to obtain well tracked deep sky images. The original mount has a huge periodic error of 3'.
I've also a small mount for light trips (such as eclipses), it's a japan-made german equatorial mount (a Kenko NES, even if on the mount there is a label Konus), motorized in both axes. An Pentax 75 apocromatic refractor is superb for medium field deep sky astrophotography.
Here are in detail, click on the images.

Newton 310mm f/5	Meade SC 20cm f/10	Schmidt 30cm f/2
Pentax 75 f/6,7	Konus Vista 80mm f/5	Vixen 12x80 binuculars

Gemini G-41	Meade 2080	Kenko NES	A mount for binoculars

Finger Lakes ME2	YankeeRobotics Trifid2 - 6303 cl1 fixed on Schmidt	Canon EOS 350D	Canon EOS 5D baader filter
Film cameras and objectives

Colle del Nivolet Valle d'Aosta 2600m	Capanne di Cosola Piemonte/Emilia Romagna 1500m	Monte Avaro Lombardia 1700m	San Martino Lombardia 1100m
Bogli Emilia Romagna 1350 m	Colle dell'Agnello Piemonte 2750 m	Passo Maniva and Croce Domini, Lombardia 2150 m

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