Equipment
Telescopes
- Celestron CPC-1100, Schmidt-Cassegrain mirror telescope with 11 inch (280 mm) mirror diameter
- Dobson telescope with 12 inch (300 mm) mirror (Odyssey 1)
- Dobson telescope with 8 inch (200 mm) mirror (Helios)
- An older refracting telescope with about 8 inch (200 mm) diameter and about 100 inch (2500 mm) focal length
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Binoculars
Other equipment
- A number of different eyepieces from 4 to 40 mm
- Different eyepiece filters, for example moon filters and nebula filters
- Adapters for cameras (Canon, Nikon and Pentax)
- Sun filters for sunspots (in daylight)
A computer is used for showing slideshows with video a projector in the observatory’s first floor. The computer will also be used to take CCD photos of the night sky with the Celestron telescope.