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I purchased a 2.5m Observadome from Astromart. My father, a friend and I picked it up in Northern Ca. on November 19th, 2004. We had to disassemble it, and trailer it home.
 
It was installed on the new observatory on March 5th, 2005 (ref. observatory construction).

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Info. on the Observadome can be found here.

Astromart can be found here.

A Meade 16" LX200 GPS with standard coatings was ordered from O.P.T. on 04/22/2005. The scope was delivered on July 17th, 2005 .  It was mounted Alt-Az on a custom pier. Imaging is done with the new Meade D.S.I. Pro which I received in April of 05. A Meade 0.33 focal reducer is used to shorten the 4064mm focal length down to 1224mm which yields a field of view of 10.4 x 13.7 arc-minutes . A Super-circuits PC-164 low light camera is used thru the Meade 50mm finder. A 60mm refractor is also used as a finder. Scope/camera control is done with Autostar Suite 3.19.

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O.P.T. can be found here

The Meade DSI pro can be found here

The Meade LPI can be found here

The Super-circuits PC-164C Camera can be found here.

The 16" Meade LX200 can be found here

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