Waiting for darkness in final imaging mode at the dark sky
site of the Astronomical Society of New South Wales (ASNSW)

This was the first of three nights in a row used to compile this data set:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/centaurus_a

Astrophysics 152EDF Starfire APO
A 6" oil spaced triplet lens using FPL53 center element
with 4" field flattener

Takahashi NJP german equatorial mount (Total PE < 3") controlled by FS2

Finger Lakes Instrumentation ProLine16803 CCD with colour filterwheel-5-7

80mm ED refractor for guiding using a Starlightxpress SXV-H9

Astroart5 for camera control, preprocessing and alignment of frames.

Astronomik Type IIc 50mm square low reflection LRGBHaOIIISII filter set

STAR Atlas:PRO for mount control

Astro-Handy Light ring for flats

For images from this setup see:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/recent_images