Last updated: 2000 July 21

Starlight Xpress Ltd. is a British company which started making CCD imaging equipment in 1986. The demand for good quality, low cost CCD equipment has led to Starlight's products being launched onto the market world wide, and their products have met with great success.   Now Starlight Xpress products are available in Canada through Winchester Electronics!

Established in 1998 by Doug Clapp and Walter MacDonald with the primary purpose to import and sell Starlight Xpress CCD cameras in Canada. We found that these amazing astronomical CCD cameras were not available in this country and thought that this would be an ideal opportunity to get involved with what we love and know best. The lure of these 'next generation' eyepiece CCD cameras was irresistible! The rational was simple... "If something this good can't be bought here,  then maybe we should do something about that!"

We maintain an inventory of cameras, accessories, and software. Orders are typically shipped by XpressPost (insured) or may be picked up (by appointment only).

Compulsive visual observer, observatory builder, computer hacker, and former rogue newsletter editor, Walter is the founder of the observatory complex at "Old MacDonald's Farm."

He does computer consulting, working out of his home base in Oshawa. Walter have been an avid amateur astronomer all of his life, and is currently struggling to avoid getting sucked permanently and irretrievably into cyberspace.

His observing time is divided between variable stars, deep sky, and astro-imaging. Currently, he does virtually all of his astronomy from the city of Oshawa thanks to the ability of the CCD camera to take half-decent shots through heavily light polluted skies.

Doug retired in 1996 from running his own electronics business, Decade Electronics, in Scarborough. Doug's interest in Astronomy centers around imaging (first film, now CCD). He started with an ST-4, then progressed to an ST-6, then to an ST-7/AO-7, before finally moving up to the Starlight Xpress cameras.

Doug's imaging takes place in his backyard in Scarborough, at Jack Newton's Florida Imaging Center, or at the observatory complex on "Old MacDonald's Farm."