ActonAstro

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Web Name: ActonAstro

WebSite: http://www.actonastro.com

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In 1997 during the peak of comet Hale-Bopp, I made a comment to my wife that I always wanted a telescope but never bothered to buy one. For Christmas 1997, she bought me a Meade model 290 60mm refractor. I took it outside that night and pointed to the easiest deep sky object I could find, M42. Even though the scope was only 60mm and had .965 eyepieces, I was hooked. My wife had no idea what she started.

A few months later a friend told about a friend they had that bought a scope to see Halleys Comet in 1986, and never used it again so I bought the whole setup, including photo equipment. The scope was a Celestron C-8 on a Super Polaris mount, which I later changed to a Celestron CI-700. With a good scope and mount, I started doing astrophotography. Since then, I have switched to a Celestron 9 1/4" that stays in my observatory for photography, a Stellarvue AT1010 80mm short tube refractor for wide field photos, 2 dobs (8" Light Bridge and 10" home built) that I take to my clubs star parties and various other scopes and equipment that have come and gone.

A couple of years later I came up with an idea to make the Telrad easier to use with various sky atlas'. I called it the Telguide. I sold the Telguide for over 5 years then decided to discontinue the product. Sales were down to 1 every couple of months so it was time to bring it to an end.I still see them in use every now and then at star parties and smile at the small impact I had on the hobby.

Anyway, this is my site that I created to display my astrophotography and and other astronomy information, as well as weather information from my personal weather station. Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoy my site.

A forecast of seeing conditions at my Observatory, click chart for a detailed view

Current Moon Phase

Click the moon for more lunar information

Any questions, comments, suggestion, etc., please me.

Observatory Astrophotography Equipment Weather

Polar Alignment Telescope Mounts Eyepieces Barn door Drive

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