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My home built 14" f/4.5 Newtonian telescope

About Akule

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Akule Planetary Equipment H/W

 

* Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian (http://maphilli14.webs.com/astro-equipment)

 

* Aperture: 35.6cm (14")

 

* Focal Ratio: f/4.5 + 5x TeleVue Powermate at f/24.3 / 8.662m EFL

 

* Primary Mirror: Carl Zambuto 14" f/4.5

 

* Camera: ZW Optical(ZWO) ASI174MM (monochrome, USB3.0)

 

* Color Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress 7 Position 1.25" Carousel for Starlight Xpress USB Filter Wheel

 

* Filters: Baader Planetarium LRGB Telescope Filter Set

 

* Filters: Astronomik ProPlanet 742 IR-pass filter

 

* Filters: Astrodon-Schuler UV filter

 

Images: http://imgur.com/a/0znBY#0

 

Blog: http://maphilli14.webs.com/apps/blog/?view_type=1

 

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**Akule Planetary Processing S/W**

 

* OS: Lenovo Y700 (Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit)

 

* Acquisition: Torsten Edelmann’s Firecapture

 

* Processing: AutoStakkert 3 -> AstraImage -> WinJUPOS -> PhotoShop -> Topaz DeNoise -> Google Nik -> Gimp - https://imgur.com/a/RhPRXD2

 

 

 

Detailed processing - https://astromaphilli14.blogspot.com/2020/09/mars-2020-processing-recipie-25x-pm.html

 

 

 

Akule CCD Equipment H/W

Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian

* Aperture: 356mm (14")

 

* Focal Ratio: f/4.5  / 1,600mm FL

 

* Primary Mirror: Carl Zambuto 14" f/4.5

 

* Mount: Celestron CGE

 

* Imaging Camera: SBIG STF-8300M (monochrome)

 

** Pixel scale:1.34 arcsec/pixel

 

* Color Filter Wheel: True Technology UK (Tru-Tek) - SupraSlim with Visual Wide Wheel (built in diagonal)

 

* Filters: Baader Planetarium LRGB Telescope Filter Set, Baader H-Alpha 7nm Narrowband Filter

 

* Guiding: Teleskop-Service TS9-OAG off axis guider

 

* Guide Camera: QHY-5LIIM

 

 

Akule CCD Processing S/W

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OS: Lenovo W530 (Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit)

Acquisition: Main Sequence Software - Sequence Generator Pro

Processing: DeepSkyStacker -> PhotoShop -> Gimp

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