My window observatory

Posted: Jan 16th, 2020

Technical Info

Telescope/Lens: Объктив Юпитер 37А

Camera: ZWO ASI 178 mm

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ3-2 MyDrive

Software: Maxim DL, DeepSkyStacker, FitStacker, PS

Accessories: Фильтр Baader Planetarium NEODYMIUM 1.25", Бюджетный красный фильтр

Kharkiv, Ukraine

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My street-balcony-window observatory in action. The balcony is on the first floor. The Jupiter 37A lens is the main one. A Jupiter 21M is used as the guide. Although sometimes they switch roles. The mount is controlled using a control unit of my own design, based on Arduino. Accordingly, the autoguider port function and relative GO-TO are implemented.

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Smirnov Andrey

An interesting solution and quite justified for such focal lengths.

16 Jan, 2020 Reply

Malex

I tried attaching a 70mm ED lens here. The focal length was 420mm. It worked quite well. But I didn't like the ED lens. :)

16 Jan, 2020 Reply

Ruslan

Hello. How can I get in touch with you? I'd like to learn more about your design.

22 Jan, 2020 Reply

Malex

For more details, you can look here: https://astroscope.ua/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=13569&start=30#p65697
You can also get in touch there.

22 Jan, 2020 Reply

Van Yakovlv

Scary beautiful, not scary to leave on at night?

13 Sep, 2020 Reply

Malex Replied to Van Yakovlv

I'm not leaving it out. And it's not so easy to pull this off the window. Plus, my balcony is quite far from the sidewalk, and there are thickets in front of the balcony. In short, you'd really have to make an effort to reach my setup. So for now, it seems okay.

14 Sep, 2020 Reply

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