My home built 14" f/4.5 Newtonian telescope

Akule Planetary Equipment H/W

* Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian  Akule | astromike (astromikephillips.wixsite.com)

* Aperture: 35.6cm (14")

* Focal Ratio: f/4.5 + 5x TeleVue Powermate at 0.078"/px | 9,109mm EFL

* Primary Mirror: Carl Zambuto 14" f/4.5

* Mount: iOptron CEM-120

* Camera: FLIR Blackfly BFS-U3-32S4M-C (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

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Akule Planetary Equipment S/W workflow

* OS: Lenovo P1 Gen 4 (Microsoft Windows 11 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

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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: iOptron CEM-120

* 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: ZWO ASI-290M

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Akule CCD Processing S/W

OS: Lenovo T470s - Win10

Acquisition: Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A.)

Processing: DeepSkyStacker -> PhotoShop -> Gimp