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About Point Cook Observatory

Where we are

Situated in Point Cook, Victoria, Australia since 2021.


Just down the road from RAAF Williams,  the birthplace of the Royal Australian Air Force and the oldest continually operating military airfield in the world. 

Activities

One learns a bit about the universe in the process of taking pretty pictures of it.

Equipment

Celestron EdgeHD 8

SkyWatcher Esprit 120ED

William Optics Zenithstar 81

Lunt 50mm Solar scope


SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro Equatorial mount

ZWO AM5N Equatorial mount


ZWO ASI2600MM monochromatic camera

ZWO ASI585MC colour planetary camera

Player One Saturn-M SQR monochromatic solar & planetary camera


ZWO OAG-L off-axis guider with ZWO ASI174MM guide camera 


ZWO 36mm filter wheel

Antlia LRGB filters

Antlia 3nm Narrowband filters


Primaluce Labs Sesto Senso II focuser (Esprit 120ED)

PrimaLuce Labs Esatto 2" LP focuser (EdgeHD 8)

ZWO EAF focuser (Zenithstar 81)


Software:                                           Acquisition Computer:

NINA                                                    Mele Quieter 4C (16Gb)

PHD2

PixInsight                                          Proccesssing Computer:

SharpCap                                          A big, fast one with a fancy GPU

FireCapture

AutoStakkert!

ImPPG

Photoshop

Point Cook Observatory

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