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That's me with an 6" f/5 Newtonian in July 1995.
My hobbies are astronomy, computers and chess. My main interests in
astronomy are astrophotography and comet watching. For this I use now a 8"
f/4 Newtonian. For guiding I use an 2.4" refractor. For comet photography
I have a 5.5" Celestron Schmidtcamera.
Since August 2003 I use a Platinum
XL ccd-camera for imaging comets. You can see my setup here.
A Schmidt Camera is a specialised telescope for taking wide-field images.
It is only useable for photography and provides very sharp and detailed
images of the sky. Many discoveries have been made using Schmidt Cameras
such as the BIG Schmidt on Mt. Palomar for the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in 1950 or the Schmidt
Cameras at ESO or the Anglo Australian
Observatory at Siding Springs.
My Schmidt Camera is a used 5.5" from Celestron. Image from 1997.
My telescope and the equipment of my friend Gerd Rudolf during our stay on Farm Tivoli in July 2001. I have a 8" f/4 Newtonian, he owns a 8 inch f/4 Flatfieldcamera.
Observing in February 2008
Observing C/2012 S1 ISON in 2013
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