The telescope is a 30 cm F2.9 "home made" and the detector is a modified webcam (Philips TouCam 740K SC)

The mount is manufactured with aluminium. It's a equatorial mount with two steppers motors of 200 steps (DEC) and 400 steps (AR). Both motors are controlled by computer with Mel Bartels software.

The optical system is compose of one parabolic mirror polished by my friend and amateur astronomer Walter Fontana. This mirror has 29 cm (11.4 inch) of diameter and 87.5 cm (34.5 inch) of focal length (F2.9).

The images are captured with a Philips Toucam 740K SC. The modified include: long time exposure and amplifier off. Addition the firmware went modified for captured in RAW format.

The video AVI is captured with K3CCD Tools software, modified with AVIRAW software, exported to BMP format with K3CCD and the processing with Maxim DL.

Alberto Ceretta aceretta@adinet.com.uy