My equipment

I'm shooting my astronomical images from downtown Oulu. This is my collection of  gears needed for my astroimaging. Canon EF 200mm camer...

Couple of image collections with very different instruments, Tokina 300mm camera lens and the Meade LX200 GPS 12" telescope 3000mm

Images taken with a Tokina AT-X 300mm f2.8 camera lens Images are in HST-palette from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen...

Astro photographing in Finland

This it is... Lots of snow and clouds in winter 2010. I bet, if I'll start to shoot snow and clouds, we dont see them anymore.

Active otics and Meade LX200 GPS 12"

I have made some experiments wirh SXV-AO and QHY9. Since QHY9 has a very small pixels, 5,4microns, there will be serious over sampling with ...

A POD

As seen in the image, my Observatory locates in very light polluted location. I bought this observatory dome from Ian - Altair Astro UK. ht...

A New Observatory!

After shooting from very bad location many years I finally have had a new location for my observatory. It stil located in very center of the...

Modification to QHY9 camera

I made a small mod to the QHY9. There is now angular scale added to the camera. to be able to read the scale in any position I made it to mo...

QHY9 8,6mb cooled astro camera

My new B&W astro camera is now under testing. So far it looks like a winner! Information about the camera: http://www.qhyccd.com/QHY9.ht...

Canon 200mm f1.8 lens

My new camera lens is a World fastest telelens, Canon EF 200mm f1.8L. Here is some information: http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwar...

New equipmets and some development work.

New focusing system for the Tokina 300mm lens. System is based on temperature compensating TCF-s focuser and it's very accurate. I prin...

New flat "box" with EL-sheet.

Last winter I had lots of problems with bad flats. I managed to buy one A2 size sheet of electro luminescent material. (Here is the link: h...

New Lens for astro imaging

Tokina AT-X 300 f2.8 is a big and heavy lens. Diameter of the main lens is 112mm. Optical quality is very good. At f2.8 stars are absolute ...