Custer Observatory - Telescopes

Telescopes

Custer has a large collection of telescopes of all sizes and description. Among them are:

• Obsession 25" Newtonian reflector (on loan from Suffolk Community College).
• Meade 16" LX200GPS-SMT (currently away for maintenance).
• Celestron CGE-1400 14" Go-To Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with German equatorial mount. This telescope currently serves as the observatory's research instrument and is outfitted for remote operation and viewing.
• Meade 14" LX200GPS-SMT.
• 10" Astro binoculars, designed and built by one of the observatory members, Rico Verticchio, and on loan to Custer.
• 6" Alvan Clark Refractor circa 1900 with a Northwestern University equatorial mount circa 1895.
• 12½" Newtonian reflector
• 12" Springfield designed by Russell Porter.
• 12½" Newtonian.
• 13" Newtonian Dobsonian.
• 8" Schmidt Newtonian.
• 8" Classic Cassegrain.
• 7" f/20 refractor.
• 5" Alvan Clark Student Model refractor.
• 4" Unitron.
• 7x21 Ross Camera, f/7 with a 3" lens, accepting 8x10 and 4x5 inch plate film.
• 10½" Newtonian reflector.