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This is more for you who whish to spend more time than money on your astro equipment. Be careful if you want to do something similar as I do here. I do many mistakes and what's right for me can be wrong for you and your equipment, you can destroy it!

Optics:


TS130 upgrade, 130 mm f/7 APO telescope:

Project: TS130 upgrade

First published: 2023

Project: TS130 upgrade, 130 mm f/7 APO telescope

Pentax 645 FA* 300 mm ED f/4 lens:

Project: Pentax 645 FA* 300 mm ED f/4 lens

First published: 2023

Project: Pentax 645 FA 300 mm ED f/4 lens

Pentax 645 300 mm ED f/4 lens, can it replace my Canon 300 mm L f/4 as a low vignetting lens ?

Project: Pentax 645 300 mm ED f/4 lens

First published: 2020

Project: Pentax 645 300 mm ED f/4 lens

Why don't design your own Newton telescope?

Project: Design a Newton telescope

First published: 2017

Design tool Newt Web

My full frame camera needs a bigger flattener to reduce the vignetting. This time I built my flattener system from a 3" x1 Altair Planostar Flattener.

Project: Three Inch Flattener

First published: 2017

Three Inch Flattener

DIY/3D Flat Field Calibrator project. When processing astro images it's important to have good quality MasterFlats.

Project: DIY/3D Flat Field Calibrator

First published: 2022

DIY/3D project: Flat Calibrator

To my new transportable mount I need some shorter focal length lens. A Sigma APO 150mm f2.8 maybe. I did some simple test how the vignetting looks.

Project: Sigma APO 150mm f2.8 lens

First published: 2017

Sigma APO 150mm f/2.8 lens test

Analyses of vignetting of my lenses and telescopes:

Project: Analyze of vignetting

First published: 2019

Vignetting of lenses and telescopes

Astrophotography test of medium format Pentax SMC 67 165 mm f/2.8 lens:

Project: Test Pentax 67 lens

Can I have any use of an old medium format lens?

First published: 2018

Astrophotography test of medium format Pentax SMC 67 165 mm f/2.8 lensting

Sigma APO 150 mm f/2.8
vs
Pentax SMC 67 165 mm f/2.8:

Project: Test of vignetting

Can I have any use of an old medium format lens?

First published: 2018

Sigma APO vs Pentax 67 lense test of vignetting

Ideas about a high efficient narrow band camera system.

Project: High efficient narrow band camera system

First published: 2017

High efficient narrow band camera

Big binocular, 25x100mm.

Project: Big binocular

First published: 2019

Big binocular, 25x100mm

Making a heating band or dew heater for anti dew.

Project: Heating band

First published: 2017

Heating band
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