Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS (OTA only now)

Purchased from David Hinds Ltd in 2004 and housed in the dome. Used primarily for imaging (planetary and small DSOs') as well as some visual.

This is side-by-side mounted with an Opticstar 127mm Apo mounted on a Skywatcher EQ8 and Altair Astro pier.

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Opticstar Ascension127mm Triplet APO

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Details here

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Purchased 2016.

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Side by side mounted with the C11 on the EQ8

Used for visual and imaging, primarily with ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool

Also used for Solar work with Quark and ZWO ASI 294MM

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Appears to be a clone/rebadge of the ES127ED

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Complete with Explore Scientific 0.7 reducer/flattener

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Opticstar Ascension80mm Triplet APO

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Details here

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Purchased 2018.

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Side by side mounted with the C11 on the EQ8

Used for visual and imaging, primarily with ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool

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Mounted piggy-back on the  127mm Apo

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Opticstar 152mm Maksutov

 

Details here

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Purchased 2016.

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To be used for 'Grab & Go' and outreach

Mounted on Skywatcher EQ5-Pro

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Complete with Opticstar 0.63 reducer

Celestron Nexstar 102 SLT

Purchased from eBay in 2015.

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Will be used for solar work in conjunction with the Quark.
Now dismounted from the observatory and will be used on either the EQ5-Pro or on its original SLT Alt-Az mount as a portable scope

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Pegasus FocusCube

Purchased from Altair Astro in 2018.

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Both the C11 and 127mm Apo now have electronic focusers made by Pegasus - details here

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My trials & Tribulations getting these to work (mostly my own fault) can be found here

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There is now also a hand controller that is swapped between focusers as needed. This allow the Focusing App to get to rough focus based on a documented set of positions for my cameras, OAG, Quark etc and then the handset is used to refine the focus - it's easier than using the app

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