Hi to everyone on Roboscopes,
I have just joined Syndicate 5 and looking forward to some amazing wide field images of the Northern Hemisphere!
My name in Brian, and I am a retired professional astronomer. However, I only started in this wonderful hobby of astrophotography 18months ago. I have my own little roll-off roof observatory in near Queenstown, New Zealand with a Skywatcher Esprit APO refractor 100 and GSO RC8 telescopes. My main AP interests wide-field nebulae (bright and dark - particularly IFNs) and larger galaxies. I post all my images on Astrobin (
https://www.astrobin.com/users/profbriannz/).
Privileged to, and frustrated by, living at -45, since less than 1 million people on the planet live further south than me, but so much of the Northern Hemisphere is out of bounds. So I guess this is the place and the rig for me.
Still a little baffled by how I go about discussing objects to be observed (and what's in the queue) for my syndicate, but I am sure I will find out.
Brian