The Sidereal Trading Carbon Fibre 10″ F4 Newtonian includes:
Skywatcher 10″ F4 primary mirror
Klaus Helmerich 10″ F4 carbon fibre tube
Teleskop Service Spider and Secondary Mirror Collimation Screws
CRL 2.5″ MoonLite Focuser and Stepper Motor control system
Losmandy Universal Dovetail / Primary Mirror Cooling Fan.
Mine rides on a customised Takahashi NJP Equatorial Mount
QSI 683 WSG8 camera
Starlight Express Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Astrodon 3nm Ha, O3, S2 & N2 Narrowband & LRGB Filters
Ioptron Tripier
This is the Stellarvue SV70t 70 mm f-6 apo triplet with dual speed, rack and pinion focuser. The focuser is set up to accept a dedicated .8X photographic field flattener/reducer converting the telescope into a 336 mm f-4.8 astrograph.
Customised Takahashi NJP Equatorial Mount
QSI 683 WSG8 camera
Starlight Express Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Astrodon 3nm Ha, O3, S2 & N2 Narrowband Filters
Astrodon LRGB Filters
Preferred Software
Andy uses Astropixel Processor & Photoshop CC2019 to process his images.
Nebulosity 4.0 is his capture program
Guiding by PHD2
Mount controlled by Sky Safari 5.0
Andy is a Mac user, and he finds these applications very successful. He is not currently endorsed by any of the above, but is open to offers!
(At Snake Valley Astronomy Camp 2016 with the SV70t on the Skywatcher EQ6)