According to Ed Ting "The white tube and lime green highlights were chosen, it is said, to remind one of lily pads in a koi pond, or a Japanese tea ceremony." I dig it. This is the F/10 Meade SCT tube on the G11 mount with the FS102 piggyback. The SCT used to be an LX50. The CCD camera is an ST-5C fromSBIG. The laptop is a vintage 486sx/33 but it does the for imaging and guiding. The night I took this photo ended up being an evil night filled with tech gremlins. Just about everything that could go wrong did: my relays quit working, the color filter wheel couldn't decide which filter was selected, the FS102 dewed up <ack!>, the wind picked up to 30mph and it rained during the early morning (luckily I had a tarp over everything). It was a nice sunset though, this view is facing east about 5 minutes after sunset.

Objective	Mag	Fov
8.8mm Meade Ultra Wide Angle	93X	0.9°
26mm Meade Super Plössl	32X	1.63°
40mm Meade Super Plössl	20X	2.2°
35mm Film @ f/5.9		2.46° X 3.23°
35mm Film @ f/8	16X	2.38° X 1.82°
ST5C CCD Camera @ F8, 2.5" per pixel	16X	13.4' X 10.1'
ST5C CCD Camera @ F4	8X	27' X 20'
ST5C CCD Camera @ F3	2.5X	36' X 27'

Camera Lenses

Objective	Mag	Fov
35mm @ f/4		58° X 39°
135mm @ f/4		15° X 10°

Meade SCT

Objective	Mag	Fov
8.8mm Meade Ultra Wide Angle	227X	0.37°
26mm Meade Super Plössl	77X	0.68°
40mm Meade Super Plössl	50X	0.8°
35mm Film	40X	1.03° X 0.69°
ST5C CCD Camera @ F10, 1.0" per pixel	40X	5.5' X 4.13'
ST5C CCD Camera @ F5	20X	11' X 8.3'
ST5C CCD Camera @ F3.7	15X	15' X 11.2'