# Ritchey–Chrétien at Kickapoo Valley Reserve 2-b

- By: Photo Brainandforce, edited from raw by Cart
- Date: 2025-09-28
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Raw file sent to me (Cart) by the author per this diff
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ritchey%E2%80%93Chr%C3%A9tien_at_Kickapoo_Valley_Reserve_2-b.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Ritchey%E2%80%93Chr%C3%A9tien_at_Kickapoo_Valley_Reserve_2-b.jpg/1920px-Ritchey%E2%80%93Chr%C3%A9tien_at_Kickapoo_Valley_Reserve_2-b.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

I did a photo shoot with my rig at Kickapoo Valley Reserve in southewest Wisconsin while acquiring broadband data on IC 10. You can see the summer Milky Way setting with the bright stars of Cygnus on the upper left, and the Little Dipper is visible to the upper right.

Setup

OTA: Apertura CarbonStar RC8 (203 mm f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien)

Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i (strain wave German equatorial mount)

Camera: Touptek ATR533M (Sony IMX533 monochrome CMOS sensor) with tilt plate

Filter wheel: Touptek AFW-M (8-position wheel supporting 1.25" and 36 mm filters)

Filters: Touptek 1.25" LRGB, Touptek 6.5 nm SHO, SVBONY SV183 685 nm IR pass

Control: MeLe Quieter 4C running NINA, GS Server, PHD2, and ASTAP

Other accessories: Z-Bolt 525 nm laser in right Synta finder bracket

Target: IC 10 (irregular starburst galaxy in Cassiopeia