Ad Astra Observatory

When I realized that I was going to be doing a lot of astrophotography, the first set of gear I bought to “add on” to Veronica was the ST80, which did guidescope duty for 3 1/2 years, until I retired it in favor of Pumpkin.

This is a detail of the focuser on the ST80 (now used as a guidescope), showing the stock T-threads. The ED80 came with a similar setup on the stock 2”-to-1.25” adapter, but I replaced that with a 2” T-adapter, to reduce vignetting.