Setup for electroncally assisted observing (EAA)

The setup comprises an Altair Astro RC6 F9 scope plus SX Lodestar mono camera on a Celestron CG5-GT mount. A 0.63x reducer is used for wider fields. Piggybacked on the main scope is a Altair Astro 60mm scope which at F3.75 is ideal for very wide field viewing. Image capture is via Lodestar Live software running in a laptop.

This setup allows very faint objects to be viewed on a laptop during an observing session, rather than looking through an eyepiece. This setup shows far more than the naked eye could ever see through an eyepiece.