We can aquire the excellnt but free pictures captured by
Hubble Space telescope, SUBARU telescope or others in the Internet.
It is very good. But,
it is also greatfull that our eyes directly take images of the star through the lens.
Althogh, the both telescopes are very different.
The stars wispers us,
"Univers is here, because we see it."
They let know us their existence.
M42 Orion Great Nebula
2004 9/17 Tenngu-Daira (Tateyama-Plateau), Toyama Japan.
Vixen apochromatic refractor 102mm/F9
Vixen GP equatrial mount (MT-1/MD-6 driven)
LV15mm Collimate, Nikon E995 Modified
Composite of 3 images by stella-Image 4.0 and processed by Photoshop 5.5
We can see with the naked eyes. Orion Great Nebula M42。
Moon
2004 9/3 01:08 Toyama Japan, Moon age 18.4
Vixen achromatic refractor 80mm/F15
Vixen Polaris equatrial mount
LVW22mm Collimate, Nikon E5000 Auto
I got this old and long focus length telescope at internet auction.
Seller said no mold, but I foud some mold on the objective lens.
I cleaned up it and became good condition.
Old Japanese telescope was good quality, but recently..
High contrast and very few chromatic abberation.
M13 Great globular cluster in Hercules
2004 6/3 Toyama
Meade LX200 SCT-254mm/F6.3 with SuperWedge
Watec WAT-120N
WAT-120N is very high sensitivity monocolor CCD, it can capture low light stars.
LX200-25 is havy weight, but good telescope system.
The H-alpha Solar
2004 8/21 Niigata (at Tainai star party)
CORONADO PST
Nikon E5000 Auto
This was the exhibition item.
I brrowed the image of sun.
This telescope has Hα spectrum filter that is very special. This spectrum is derived from hydrogen.