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The Scope - Meade LX90

StellaCam II - used for deep-sky imaging.
Attaches to the scope in place of the eyepiece.

PlanetCam - used for solar system objects.
Attaches to the scope in place of the eyepiece.

StellaCam II with a regular 135mm camera lens attached.
Obviously not nearly as much power as using the telescope (and no tracking), but I get much larger fields of view with this setup.

Vivitar 3800N 35mm SLR Camera - used for taking film-shots.
All of my early planetary pictures, as well as the eclipse photo on the Soalr System Page were taken this way. The tube at the front of the camera is used for attaching it to the scope (with or without an eyepiece). This way the scope acts as a giant lens for the camera.

Toshiba monitor - used for displaying the images from the StellaCam II and the PlanetCam.

Short-tube refractor mounted to the main scope.
The short focal length of this scope provides much wider fields of view than the LX90. The counterweights on the bottom of the main tube are needed for balancing.

Close-up view
(That's an 8" Celestron Dob in the background.)

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