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Oh what a journey it has been. In 1969, right before my Birthday on July 24, my pop bought me my first telescope. It was a Sears & Roebuck 60mm refractor with a wooden tripod. I didn't see Neal Armstong or Buzz Aldrin on the moon that month, but I was planted in front of the TV with my family -- like millions of other people around the world -- when the first TV pictures were transmitted back. Later that night I spent a few hours trying to find the landing site, and from there I've been an astronomy fan for life.

Flash forward a few years. I've owned a couple of dozen telescopes in the last 55 years. I used the little Sears scope until I was in college when I bought a larger scope from one of the professors in the Astronomy Department (Oklahoma). Over the years I've primarily owned Dobsonian and Newtonians, with a couple of small refractors thrown in along the way.

Then just over a year ago, I decided to get serious. I had been using an 8" Dob and decided I wanted to get into EAA and/or Astrophotography. So sold my little scope and bought all new. Now I own a very nice William Optics Zenith Star 81 which sits on a Star-watcher EQ6 R Pro. I recently purchased a QHYCCD 183mc for my main camera. At the same time, I bought an ASI 120m for my guide camera and paired it with a William Optics mini-50 guide scope.

Still in the earliest stages of learning how to take pictures of stuff in the sky. But I recently lucked out and grabbed an OK shot of the Pinwheel Galaxy using my camera on B&W. I've posted it here and hope to post more as I progress. I look forward to hearing comments, constructive criticism, and seeing all the work of so many other fellow hobbyist.

Website

http://www.drcarlfranklin.com

Job

Professor Emeritus

Hobbies

Musician, author, and polymath.