GEAR

Equipment Locker

The tools behind every frame — optics for gathering faint light, mounts for holding steady against the Earth's turn, and cameras for recording what the eye alone can't hold onto.

Optics

GSO 6" RC Astrograph

150mm apertureF/9 Ritchey-Chrétien

Primary deep-sky optical tube — nebulae, clusters, and star fields.

KSON Newtonian Reflector

135mm apertureF/900mm25mm eyepiece

Lunar and planetary sessions, including afocal smartphone captures.

Mounts

Bresser EXOS 2

EQ-5 classGerman equatorial

Tracked long-exposure deep-sky imaging.

Alt-Azimuth Mount

Manual alt-az

Quick visual and planetary sessions with the KSON.

Cameras

Canon EOS 200D Mark II

ISO 6,400–12,80013–30s exposures

Primary imaging camera for long-exposure deep-sky work.

Smartphone (Afocal)

Eyepiece projection

Handheld lunar and planetary captures through the eyepiece.