My telescope for planetary images
Here is my actual telescope: a standard Meade 8" LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain. I use it in alt-azimuth mode for all my lunar and planetary pictures.
The telescope for deep-sky images
The telescope used for deep-sky imaging is a 250 mm (F/D 5.8) newtonian telescope entirely built (mirror and mechanics) by my father Bernard Morin.
This instrument, owned by SAPP association (Societe d'Astronomie Populaire Poitevine), is characterized by :
- A very fast f/ratio (f/1.5), allowing short exposures.
- A wide field of view (4.5 x 6.5 degree field on standard 35mm film).
- Fixed infinity focus. The Schmidt camera is permanently focused at infinity and needs no focus adjustment in the field.
A Celestron 203 mm f/1.5 "Schmidt camera", for the images of the comets
My first telescope : a very classical Newtonian 115 / 900
Here is my very first telescope.
I didn't realize any picture with it, but it allowed me to learn my way around the sky.
My first views of the moon and saturn throught this scope were quite impressive.
Solar system
Moon
Deep sky
Material
The P.S.T. (Personal Solar Telescope) from Coronado
The P.S.T. from Coronado was used for H-Alpha images of the sun.
The P.S.T. is a full grown H-Alpha telescope with a decent <1.0 Angstrom filter. This allows to observe the prominences of the sun as well as many of its surface details.
It has an aperture of 40mm and a focal length of 400mm.
