josephwjackson

I am a retired physician. My interest in astronomy began as a child. I began observing and doing photos in 1982 with a cheap monocular and an adapter mounted in front of a 50mm lens on a Kowa SLR. I bought a cheap Tasco refractor with a flip-up mirror for a finder scope. It had that dangerous solar filter that screwed into the eyepiece. The best thing about the scope was its manual equatorial mount. I used it to photograph the annular eclipse that passed over Wiggins, MS, in 1980. I loaned the telescope to a colleague, and he tossed it ad garbage when he abruptly left the city. I have a roll-off roof observatory with a yoke-mounted Celestron 11 inch telescope with all the bells and whistles I could afford, plus an iOptron 106 mm refractor on an equatorial mount. It was originally on an iOptron Minitower. The Minitower is now my ALTAZ mount for my 1m dish used for 1420.4 MHz H1 observation using SDR. This is part of an ongoing project observing the Sun and my favorite nebula, Orion.