MICHAEL W. DEAN

My shot of Pinwheel Galaxy, (Messier 101) from the other night 21 million light-years from Earth. 2 hour and 8 min of shooting.  1000 mm at f/4. Also, un-cropped image with overlay of what’s what (PGC ones are more-distant galaxies.) and a photo of the scope on my mount. It barely fits in the AstroHut,…

SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD (Text below all photos) I’m selling a Fastar-compatible Celestron EdgeHD 8″, used with accessories. This scope is great for astrophotography or visual astronomy. Focal length is 2032 mm, or if you add the .7x reducer that Celestron makes, focal length then is 1470…

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(Zwo / ASI is a company that makes #astrophotography gear) —- ZWO makes great gear for the money but the customer service is horrible. I’m going to divest from using Zwo gear over the next few years, and Zwo has lost thousands of dollars in future purchases from me from this ordeal. (What Zwo did…

I recently replaced an i7 computer I bought new 6 years ago with a new Lenovo Legion T5 Tower Gaming Desktop Computer – AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core 4.50 GHz Processor, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6, Windows 11 Pro that I got on Amazon. After setting it up to…