These pages were designed to show my interest in Astronomy. I have owned the TAL 1, 4.5" reflector and the Orion GPX200. It was the f/4 version and was mounted on the GP mount with the Sky Sensor 2000PC controller.
I now own the Meade LX200, 10" f10 Schmidt-Cassegrain and have an 8" LX50 tube which I can sit on my GP mount. I had made an observatory out of a 8ft x 6ft garden shed. I made it bigger so it was 8ft square and fixed wheels inside so the roof rolled off as one whole section. This meant I was able to leave all my equipment setup ready for use.
One of my main interests is general Astro Photography. This page was originally designed to show what can be done using equipment other than CCD cameras which, unless you have a laptop or your scope is set up in a weather proof building, can be difficult to use. I have now bought a Starlight Express MX916 CCD camera. I can use it with my laptop in my observatory. I can still use my SLR camera for piggy-back photography and prime focus images.
Feel free to look around my site at the various images I have taken over the years. I have had a break from imaging over the last few years, but the site will be updated when I have time. There are a mixture of wide angle slide images taken with an SLR camera and objects taken with the CCD camera.