Hardware and software
Observatory
Sky Shed
- SkyShed roll-off roof, 8×8 ft
- Steel roof, cement-panel sides, wood frame
- About 1,500 ft, near Palomar Mountain
- WiFi remote connection
Pier
- Welded pier — tube, legs, and struts
- Starizona CGEM-PAK pier adapter
- Software Bisque 12″ Paramount MX+ pier extension
Mount
- Software Bisque Paramount MX+
- Celestron CGEM German equatorial mount
Optical tubes
- Celestron 14″ EdgeHD — 3911 mm, f/11
- Celestron 11″ EdgeHD — 2800 mm, f/10
- Explore Scientific ED102 f/7 triplet — 714 mm
- Explore Scientific field flattener, f/5 to f/7
- Celestron 80 mm guide scope — 600 mm
- Celestron 9×50 illuminated right-angle finderscope
- Canon 17–40 mm wide-angle lens
Reducers and extenders
- Celestron 0.7× EdgeHD reducer — 14″ at 2737 mm, f/7.7; 11″ at 1960 mm, f/7
- Starizona HyperStar — 14″ at 711 mm, f/1.9; 11″ at 560 mm, f/2
- Tele Vue 2× 2-inch Powermate
Cameras
- ZWO ASI6200MC Pro
- ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- SBIG STF8300M
- Celestron Nightscape 10100
- Canon 6D
- Canon T5i
Guiding
- Celestron off-axis guider
- Orion StarShoot AutoGuider Pro Mono
- SBIG STF8300M, also used to guide
Focus
- Starlight Instruments Feathertouch micro-focuser
- Starlight Instruments Focuser Boss II with HSM20 stepper
Filters
- Baader 2″ LRGB
- Baader narrowband Hα, Hβ, OIII, SII
- Baader f/2 Ultra-Highspeed 4 nm
- Radian 2″ Triad Ultra Quad-Band
- Optolong L-Pro
- Astronomik CLS-CCD
- XAGYL motorized wheel, 5 × 2″
- Starizona 2″ filter slider
Computers
- HP EliteBook, Windows 10 Pro — TheSkyX with the MX+
- Two HP EliteBook 8460p — the CGEM
Software
- Nebulosity 4
- PHD Guiding
- BackyardEOS
- AutoStakkert
- DeepSkyStacker
- PixInsight
- Canon Digital Photo Professional
- RegiStax 6
- New Astronomy Press CCD Calculator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
- AstroPixel Processor
- ASCOM
- Celestron NexRemote
- Software Bisque TheSkyX Imaging Edition
- TheSky Database Add-On
- SharpCap