Explore My Astrophotography Gear for Deep Space Imaging
Welcome to My Cosmic Toolbox — your go-to resource for essential astrophotography gear and equipment. From high-performance optics to advanced astro accessories, explore everything I use to capture the beauty of the universe and bring deep space closer to home.
A Sky-Watcher classic, this HEQ5 Pro is highly capable and trusted astrophotography equipment, perfect for any astronomy enthusiast.
The medium-grade 30 lb. payload capacity and total assembled weight of 33 lbs. (without counterweights) make it ideal for at-home observing. It comes packed with features like durable all-metal gearing, a powerful hand controller, and multiple control options.
Seen as the smaller version of the renowned Sky-Watcher EQ6-R, it offers exceptional steadiness within a more manageable frame!
With its high-quality optics, elegant frame, and valuable inclusions, this William Optics GT71 Triplet APO refractor stands out as a top choice for astrophotography equipment.
Three multi-coated lenses work together to eradicate coma seen within your images, delivering outstanding sharpness and clarity.
This William Optics telescope features a large 71 mm aperture and 420 mm focal length, making it wonderful for collecting copious amounts of light on numerous celestial objects.
Designed with durability in mind, the optical body includes high-quality anodizing and features a sleek red-and-white finish.
However you choose to utilize this superior astrograph, William Optics helps you enhance your astrophotography sessions through high performance, durability, and style.
This William Optics 2" Field Flattener & Reducer is made with Ohara glass and fully multi-coated to provide good illumination and a beautifully flat field across 97% of full frame sensors.
The reducing factor is 0.8X the focal length of the telescope.
William Optics' premium Gran Turismo line of refractors sport excellent optical performance, with FPL-53 glass providing super low dispersion apochromatic views from air-spaced triplet designs.
With the 1x Flattener for GT71 and 81 WIFD telescope you can harness this superb performance for full-frame astro images with a dedicated corrective optic.
The ASI533MC Pro features a Sony back-illuminated IMX533 sensor, making it a powerful piece of astrophotography equipment for deep sky photography.
This 1" square-frame sensor can be regarded as an upgrade of the ASI183 series. Not only does it retain the high-quality features of the ASI183, such as high QE and high frame rate, but it also offers no amp glow, readout noise as low as 1.0e, a pixel size of 3.76 μm, and two-stage TEC cooling.
The ZWO Mini Guide Scope is a 30mm f/4 refractor guide scope in a small, easy to use package.
It even comes ready to use with guider rings and dovetail for simple mounting. ZWO made sure this system was lightweight (1.1 lb.), allowing you to use it on most any scope or mount.
It can be used as a finder with optional eyepiece (reticle or otherwise) as long as you view straight-through (no diagonal).
The ASI120MINI from ZWO is an entry-level astrophotography camera that provides great performance at an affordable price.
Utilizing the AR0130CS CMOS sensor, the ASI120MINI is great for planetary imaging as well as guiding.
Some of the key features of this camera include low read noise, high dynamic range, an AR protective window, and more.
The ZWO 5V EAF is essential astrophotography equipment, providing dynamic and precise focus control for both deep-sky and planetary imaging.
This electronic automatic focuser features a highly integrated design and supports INDI, ASCOM drivers and software, ASIAIR, and ASIStudio. It also offers automatic focusing, manual focusing with a hand controller (sold separately), and compatibility with a temperature sensor (sold separately).
The ZWO ASIAIR Plus is indispensable astrophotography equipment, offering an all-in-one control solution to simplify your imaging sessions.
This powerful camera controller lets you manage your camera, mount, ZWO EAF, and other compatible gear directly from your smartphone or tablet.
Simply download the ASIAIR app, and the enhanced ASIAIR Plus antenna ensures a strong WiFi signal and fast communication for seamless control.
New 2″ filter drawer featuring the anti-light-leaking design that can effectively solve the light leaking issue under long exposure.
Double strong magnets adopted for stronger adsorption, easier installation and pulling out.
Lock screw on the side for you to adjust the tension of the holder to eliminate gap. Double insurance.
The L-Pro (L-Professional) filter is the best light pollution filter with multi-bandpass filter which offers better color balance by maximizing the transmission band by selectively reducing the transmission of wavelengths of light pollutants.
Specifically, those produced by artificial lighting, including mercury vapor lamps, both high & low pressure sodium vapor lights and the unwanted natural light caused by neutral oxygen emission in our atmosphere (i.e. skyglow).
