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My Current WO 132mm FLT APO based Astrophotography Rig, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)

My Current WO 132mm FLT APO based Astrophotography Rig

My Current WO 132mm FLT APO based Astrophotography Rig, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)

My Current WO 132mm FLT APO based Astrophotography Rig

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This is my current William Optics 132mm FLT APO Astrophotography rig (I run two rigs, the other rig is a Astro-Physics 130 F/7 Starfie rig with a Mono camera). Over the winter I updated its configuration by removing the small guide scope on the top and replacing it with a Sharpstar 61EDPHII 61mm APO refractor with a Focal reducer and field flattener. This is the smaller telescope on the top. Kind of overkill for a guide scope, but the plan here is to be able to swap the cameras between the big scope and the small scope. This will give me the option of covering a very wide field of view when the main camera is on the 61mm scope or a narrow or more magnified field of view when main camera is on the big scope. When I am imaging with the small scope, the big scope turns into the guide scope - talk about the tail wagging the dog!..

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My Current WO 132mm FLT APO based Astrophotography Rig, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)