Bellcroft Observatory

A public outreach venture serving Southern California

Observatory Equipment:

Telescopes:

Meade LX200 10 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain (F/10)

Meade Super Wedge mounted on a permanent pier

Apogee 80mm Short Tube Refractor (F/5.6)

Imaging Equipment:

Meade DSI Color CCD imager

Control Equipment:

Dell PC Pentium 4 with Meade Envisage and Autostar suite software

DewBuster dew controller and heater straps

Field Equipment:

Telescopes:

14 inch Truss Dobsonian (F/5) with Meade Magellan I Computer

8 inch Meade LX90 UHTC Schmidt-Cassegrain (F/10) on AltAz mount/tripod

Apogee 80mm Short Tube Refractor (F/5.6) on Meade DS2000 Goto Mount/Tripod

Celestron 80mm Refractor (F/11)

Coronado PST H alpha solar telescope

Imaging Equipment:

Meade DSI Color CCD imager

Meade Electronic Eyepiece

Control Equipment:

Dell laptop with Meade telescope control software

DewBuster dew controller and heater stips

Projectors:

Boxlight CP-310t LCD projector, 2000 lumins

Homestar Planetarium - projects similated night sky with 10,000 stars

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The homebuilt 14 inch F/5 truss

DOB is a portable "light bucket" and can be set up very quickly.

10 inch Meade LX200 SCT before its installation in the observatory.