Ivor's Space Station

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Solar System

Messier 

Non- Messier 

I started off in astronomy with a 4.5 inch Newtonian from Celestron. I very soon got aperture fever and eventually decided to get an f/10 10" LX 200 from Meade. I messed about with a modified Quick Cam VC for a while, some of the images are here. I then took delivery of an ST-237 from SBIG, this is a very good entry level CCD. Then I got a  Short Tube 80 refractor from Orion, Wanting a bigger chip CCD, I got a StarlightXpress MX7-C "one shot" colour camera, most of my images after March 30th 2001 are taken with this camera. After seeing the limitations of color integration using the MX7, I decided to go back to monochrome CCD so I got a StarlightXpress HX916.

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