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Contact information
e-mail
comets133@yahoo.com
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website
http://schursastrophotography.com
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Locator
Map
http://www.frappr.com/apppublic
Level of accuracy: town of Payson. Arizona,
USA
Biography
I
was born in Michigan, but have spent most of my life in Arizona. My
education is in Astrophysics and Electrical Engineering, and I am
currently employed as a Robotics
Engineer. I have two houses, one in Payson with an observatory with a
12.5 inch
homemade Newtonian on an AP1200 mount for doing CCD astrophotography. My
second observatory is 60 miles north, in Happy Jack and is at a world
class darksky site. There I have an 8 inch Schmidt camera on a homemade GEM with a
Byers
Starmaster drive. Just down the road from me the Lowell Observatory is
building a huge
monster telescope.
Areas of astrophotography interest
My current interests include deep astro-images of the usual deep sky
objects
but especially the unknown and really weird stuff.
Astrophotography publications
I
have had hundreds of photos, articles and write ups published since 1980
in
various magazines, books and periodicals including: Sky and
Telescope,
Astronomy, Deep Sky, The Observers Guide,
Telescope Making, The Deep
Sky Journal and assorted foreign publications.
Observing site
Payson
Arizona Home Observatory and Happy Jack Observatory
(in northern Arizona near the Lowell Observatory)
Astronomical Equipment
Telescopes
12.5-inch homemade Newtonian and an
8-inch Schmidt camera
Mounts
Astro-Physics 1200
home
made GEM with a Byers Starmaster drive
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