Telescopes

Observatory In April 2003 I took delivery of a modified 8'x8' garden shed which has a roll off roof. The advantages of an observatory are accurate polar alignment quick set-up time no lifting
	The main instrument is a 10" LX200 with a finder camera

My previous scope a 10" f5 Newtonian.	70mm Meade ETX. Seen here on the morning of 07/05/03 when I used it to get images of the transit of Mercury. No shadows at this point - there was only about 5 minutes of sunshine all morning.

Mike Tyrrell and me (left) with the LX200. It was mounted on this wooden trolley for several years before moving into a roll-off roof observatory (see below).

Attached to the scope is a JVC digital camcorder which we used to take all the ISS images on this site.

Behind us is the site of the new observatory

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