Setup Deep Sky Instruments RC10C, 2009, April 21

Without a stationary observatory many amateur astronomers and astro photographs need to move their equipment out of the light-polluted cities to the countrysides under darker skies.
This short video shows a typical setup of my equipment (a 10-inch Ritchey-Chretién RC10C from Deep Sky Instruments with a BORG 77ED guide scope on top of a Takahashi EM-400 mount) at my usual location in the German Odenwald near Heidelberg.
To keep the telescope and the mount steady it must be protected from the strong winds with a tarp.

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• RC10
• RC10C
• Takahashi
• EM-400
• Astro
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• SBIG
• Setup

[Dr3am0fLight]

schönes video und vorallem schöne teleskope :D

da bekommt man gleich wieder richtig lust selbst alles aufzubauen... wenn das wetter mal besser werden würde :(

Aber mal was am rande: das rote licht bringt dir auch nich viel wenn du zwischen durch immer auf den strahlenden laptop bildschirm guckst ;)

Grüße und CS

[tjdomsalla]

@Dr3am0fLight

Das rote Licht ist dennoch sehr hilfreich, im Dunkeln etwas zu erkennen und die anderen umstehenden Beobachter nicht allzu sehr zu stören. :)

[JamesJames4]

Very inspiring - Great video - Great equipment. Great idea with the wind/light breaker. Was that Astronomy specific or improvised. I'll watch this one over many times. Well done!

[foreyeproductions]

@mercsport 1 year later, if you have use for it us poor folk would like to use it :-) lol :P

[mrtheoden]

Wonderful video. Always nice to see a scope being setup!

Dave

[sirajrizvi]

what a bummer

[jenhao1]

Terrific video! You captured the nature of our hobby very, very well. Beautiful.

And I really admire your EM400 :)

[fabbio8888]

Thanks so much! That was so useful and nice. I wish you starry skies.

[mercsport]

It's tough ! 

A good vid' though which illustrates perfectly many a wasted night of hope rather than expectation . I gave up an age ago but still have all the expensive gear for no very good reason that I can think of .

Good luck the next time though .