Primary Telescope: Celestron CGX Edge HD 11 + ZWO ASI183MC - Rooster Inn Observatory - 18 Oct 2022

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A 8-ft SkyShed POD hosts the primary telescope rig that I use primarily for high resolution imaging of the moon, planets, satellites, and other near-earth objects, as well as smaller distant deep sky objects. The rig consists of: - Celestron Edge HD 11-inch telescope on a CGX mount and tripod; - ZWO ASI183MC 20Mpixel high speed color camera; - Celestron Focus Motor; - SVBony 60mm guide scope with ZWO ASI120MM-S guide camera; - Lens heater for dew control; - HP Optiplex Small Form Factor Windows 11 computer, remotely managed; - APC Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) - Power and signal cables. The Rooster Inn Observatory resides in Bortle 4 country in Upstate New York, and provides LIVE video streaming of astrophotography of sun and moon, stars and planets, galaxies and nebulae, comets and satellites. Three telescopes make up the observatory: 1- Celestron Edge HD 11-inch Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope (CST) on a CGX equatorial mount with a ZWO ASI183MC camera for planetary imaging; 2- Vaonis Stellina Telescope for Deep Space Objects (DSO); 3- Lunt LS50T H-alpha solar telescope with B400 blocking filter with ZWO ASI120MC-S camera on a Sky Watcher AZ-GTi mount; 4- Canon EOS 50D with 250mm lens on a Celestron NexStar 8SE mount for lazy imaging. German Shepherd+ Primadonna and Belgian Malinois Belladonna guard the Rooster Inn and supply voice-overs. The theme music at the start and end of videos was composed and performed by the Syracuse University Brass Ensemble under the...

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