Telescopes

I own seven telescopes at present:

• Orion SkyQuest 4.5 - 4.5" Dobsonian.

• Two Celestron C80ED - 80mm semi-APO refractors. Piggybacked on CGE1400 and Orion 10" Newtonian.

• Celestron CGE1400 XLT Fastar - 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (SCT).

• Coronado Personal Solar Telescope (PST) - 40mm refractor with <10nm H-alpha filter built-in.

• Obsession 18" classic - 18" truss Dobsonian from Dave Kriege.

• Orion 10" Newtonian - 10" classical Newtonian placed on CGE mount

I owned Celestron C9.25-SGT, which I enjoyed a lot, but I sold it on Astromart after acquiring CGE1400. I had used Antares XL10 (a 10" Dobsonian) as a portable visual scope, but after getting Obsession 18" I have sold it to a friend in Ithaca.

At present CGE1400 and Orion 10" are used exclusively for imaging or electronically assisted astronomy while Obsession 18" is used for visual observing. C14 OTA is extremely versatile for imaging (from f1.9 to f11) so it made sense to devote it to imaging, and use 18" Obsession for visual observing. I am very happy to be able to do imaging while observing visually in the same time!