Re: telescopes

["Richard L. Bowman" <rbowman@bridgewater.edu>]

On Sun, 9 Jun 1996 KARSHNER@stmarytx.edu wrote:

> 	For telescopes look to Meade or Celestron for excellent amateur class
> instruments - see Sky & Telescope or Astronomy magazines for advertisements.
> I am currently using a LX-200 and love it as a teaching and public viewing 
> tool. It has a built in microcomputer and you can simple slect the object you 
> want to look at and the telescope moves to its location. Without this kind of
> control I spent about have my time in the evening finding objects in the
> telescope, now I can go from one to the next in a few minutes. It is also
> capable of doing CCD imaging which allows my students to take their own 
> pictures that are comparable to professional ones, and the resluts are
> almost immediate, unlike taking traditional pictures that require developing the
> film. 

We are also in the process of seeking funds for a small observatory (just
a small dome [a Home-Dome/Pro-Dome from Technical Inovations, Inc.] to
give protection and room to keep the telescope so as not to have to allign
it every time we use it for our intro astronomy observations.  We are
seeking about $25,000 from a local bank.  This will give us an LX-200 with
a CCD camera and the dome, pad and pedestal.

My question is this.  Which CCD camera are you using?  My reading of some
of the articles from _CCD Astronomy_ magazine on the WWW gives me the
impression that one needs to choose a camera either for planetary images
or one for deep-sky viewing.  Have you been able to do both with your
set-up?

Thanks.

Richard Bowman
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