wpo - My Lodestar CCD camera in e-finder mode - Meade LS scope adopts finder-cam!

ETX-70 DeepSky... piggyback imaging... solar system... accessories... webcam... my YOUTUBE e-finder clip

Lodestar finder on 30cm MEADE CLASSIC LX200:   Tried the Starlight Xpress Lodestar CCD as an electronic finder using either a wideangle 'C' mount 8mm fl lens to record >120 deg of sky [shown marked-up] in brief exposures and a 58mm f/2 Zenith and 85mm f/2 Jupiter lenses for a narrower angle - these reveal the form of galaxies like M51 and diffuse nebula like NGC 7000 [Cyg] and IC 1396 [Cep]! Newly acquired ASUS EEE netotebook is a cutie.

e-finder 85mm+OG prism e-finder 85mm eeemin laptop wa finder wa bootes lodestar finder

MEADE ADD E-FINDER SYSTEM to their newly announced Meade LS telescope for initial alignment of telescope and as an imager in its own right. Judging by recently released photo the lens is located at the rear of the telescope [like mine] but thus probably a 50mm fl @ f/4 lens incorporated to give wideangle views of the sky [~6 x4 deg] but not sufficiently wide as to be obstructed by the telescope tube itself. The lens may be interchangeable - its focal length must be calibrated within software for initial alignment purposes.

mEADE LS ALIGN CAM

FUJI DIGICAM SKY SHOTS: Mercury, Venus and Jupiter at dusk from Worcester Park - Surrey including ISS PASS 2008 Nov 25/27.

Mercury+Venus at dusk Jan 2009 + PST sun in H-alpha.

PST proms VENUS+mercury thro 12 mercury jan 5 mercury jan 6

VENUS+JUP NOV23 VENUS+JUP NOV24 VENUS+JUP NOV25 VENUS+JUP NOV27 VENUS+JUP dec2 VENUS+JUP dec3 VENUS+JUP dec6 DAWN DEC8 ISS nov 25 iss nov 27 iss nov 27 MERCURY OCT25 MERCURY OCT25 venus/moon montage dec 30

INFRA-RED DEEPSKY OBJECTS M1/ M35 /M45 via 'black' IR filter.

ir/red filter kit m1 ir M1 ir.red merge m35 ir m45 IR

MAJOR+MINOR PLANETS: Venus+Neptune conj /Vesta and Metis in Cetus/Aries.

venus/nep dec 30 vesta nov4 vesta dec3 vesta dec6 metis dec6

DEEPSKY: M42/44/97/108/ NGC 2419/ 2175 /869 via red filter.

2175 oc/dif ori m44 oc cnc m97/108 uma m42/sori n2419 gc lynx m81/82 in 1s exp m81/82 n869 n869

DEEPSKY: Messier M1/31/33/35/36/37/38/42/45 Horsehead and North America.

M31 M33 M36/38 OC M1 SNR M35 OC M37 OC M45 OC Horsehead M42 N7000

MINOR PLANETS on the move..

VESTA MP4 MP32 METIS MP9

PLANETS: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto + MP starfields

neptune in cap uranus in aqr neptune pluto field jupiter field neptune uranus vesta in cetus mp79 in cap

DEEPSKY: Milky Way difuse nebula North America [NGC 7000], IC 1318 and Messier objects etc

ic1318 nr gam cyg N7000 IC1396 VEGA FOV M57 FOV M39 FOV M31 FOV PEG I GLX GP PEG I GLX GP CLOSE

VARIABLE STARS: LVP ChiCyg+Omi Cet and SDOR PCyg + Nova Sco 2008

chi cyg spectrum p cyg spectrum nsco 08 nsco 08 m51 v 58mm lens chi cyg omi cet

DEEPSKY: M51/81/82/84/101 and Coma Cluster

m51 v 58mm lens neg coma cluster v 58mm lens m81/101 v 58mm lens m84 v 58mm lens

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