Astrophotography Gear Setup (Fabian Butkovich)

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Astrophotography Gear Setup

I thought I'd share a picture of my gear setup as many people on this website do. The 80mm refractor has a lens taken from a Meade "Adventurescope" I used to own, and I redesigned a body and crayford style focuser around it, why might someone do this instead of just buying a new scope one might ask? well it comes down to budget and also just purely for the fact that it was fun! as I am also a 3D printing nerd and 3D modeling fanatic, I knew I could make a scope that would match off-the-shelf designs. Obviously, the body of the telescope is plastic so I worry that in the summertime if I accidentally leave it outside during the daytime things might melt.

The mount is a recently acquired ioptron CEM26 that I have been pretty pleased with performance-wise so far, one thing I am new to however is the operation of a Meridian flip, I always worry that before my mount can perform the flip it will run the camera into the tripod and damage something.

I control the whole setup from N.I.N.A which I have found to be an absolute game changer for complete automation! I like to keep as little things as possible outdoors, so unlike most people that use the storage tub over their imaging laptop, I actually keep my host computer inside and communicate with the rig over a 70ft long active USB 2.0 cable which actually works surprisingly well.

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Distribution of astrophotographers

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	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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