I've been a member of Roboscopes for over a year now, and subscribed to the Pier 14 Syndicate when it became available. I was the first one to join and had to wait a while for the next person to subscribe, but during that time there was a lot to learn, not just for me but also the team at Roboscopes. The first encounter of any of us with that beast of a camera and all those pixels. Fortunately for me it coincided with a planned computer upgrade, otherwise it would have been a real struggle with the one I had. Upgraded from 8gb to 16gb of ram which for any other pier would probably have been enough. There are certain things where more ram would speed things up, but on the whole it's fine. You just need to have a lot of disk storage!
Pier 14 is great for all those larger objects and mosaics where you can capture large parts of the sky in a lot shorter time, compared to anything other than those great small refractors available these days, or, top quality camera lenses. Not so good for smaller objects, so the reason why I signed up to this pier when it became available. This has been a great scope so I'm hoping that the replacement camera will be a good fit.
Really hoping it won't be as long this time before someone joins this pier. So whoever is next a huge welcome to you, and I hope you come with some suggestions as to what we might capture over the next few months.
Cheers,
Ray
Pier 14 is great for all those larger objects and mosaics where you can capture large parts of the sky in a lot shorter time, compared to anything other than those great small refractors available these days, or, top quality camera lenses. Not so good for smaller objects, so the reason why I signed up to this pier when it became available. This has been a great scope so I'm hoping that the replacement camera will be a good fit.
Really hoping it won't be as long this time before someone joins this pier. So whoever is next a huge welcome to you, and I hope you come with some suggestions as to what we might capture over the next few months.
Cheers,
Ray
Ray
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No your not, you still have to put up with me Ray and all my mad object suggestions. I like this pier also as you know !
I will get you into Abells, Arps and all the other things I love if it kills me Ray, small quirky, unusual or dark and not NGC7000 or M31 is a million percent the way forward
In the meantime the helix is rising again so get that in the pier why don't you kind sir, 300s subs and tons of SII
Not sure exactly when the new camera will be, I have to wait for them to release it yet but in the meantime to 1600mm pro is no slouch and a fine camera!
Steve
I will get you into Abells, Arps and all the other things I love if it kills me Ray, small quirky, unusual or dark and not NGC7000 or M31 is a million percent the way forward
In the meantime the helix is rising again so get that in the pier why don't you kind sir, 300s subs and tons of SII
Not sure exactly when the new camera will be, I have to wait for them to release it yet but in the meantime to 1600mm pro is no slouch and a fine camera!
Steve
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Things to do, so little time!
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Please don't take this the wrong way Steve, but I was kind of hoping for someone who actually knew what they were doing, to help me out on this pier. Fingers crossed that person will shortly join.
Seriously, I do look forward to plenty of new objects and I definitely know you're the best person for that.
Cheers,
Ray
Seriously, I do look forward to plenty of new objects and I definitely know you're the best person for that.
Cheers,
Ray
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Hi Steve,
The Helix is certainly something that I'd be very keen to do, however, I'm puzzled by the suggestion to collect tons of sulphur data. I cannot find anything that supports the idea of doing so. If you recall those of us in a syndicate who received data late last summer, received data from the Helix taken from this pier with the previous camera. The exposure times being 900 sec for the narrowband filters.
There was something like 3 hours of hydrogen, 7 of oxygen and and over 19 of sulphur. The sulphur stack to me looks extremely noisy despite the amount of integration time. I'm ready to submit this target but would prefer to stick with a HOO image, with more ha to create a detailed luminance to add to the colour image. From what I can find there is a strong presence of helium (He-ll) which has a bandwidth closer to that of Oll.
I'll await your response regarding your suggestion to collect the sulphur data.
Cheers,
Ray
The Helix is certainly something that I'd be very keen to do, however, I'm puzzled by the suggestion to collect tons of sulphur data. I cannot find anything that supports the idea of doing so. If you recall those of us in a syndicate who received data late last summer, received data from the Helix taken from this pier with the previous camera. The exposure times being 900 sec for the narrowband filters.
There was something like 3 hours of hydrogen, 7 of oxygen and and over 19 of sulphur. The sulphur stack to me looks extremely noisy despite the amount of integration time. I'm ready to submit this target but would prefer to stick with a HOO image, with more ha to create a detailed luminance to add to the colour image. From what I can find there is a strong presence of helium (He-ll) which has a bandwidth closer to that of Oll.
I'll await your response regarding your suggestion to collect the sulphur data.
Cheers,
Ray
Ray
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Hi Ray
Agreed, it does have a shed load of He2 to be honest but that is a $3k filter I do not own. Although I am talking to Custom Scientific about one for P8 at present LOL
However this is a more sensitive CMOS camera so you should be able to get S2, its also one of the reasons whey I said to get the order in early so it has all year to collect the data as it will need plenty
None the less LRGB HA OIII is also an epic image
Steve
Agreed, it does have a shed load of He2 to be honest but that is a $3k filter I do not own. Although I am talking to Custom Scientific about one for P8 at present LOL
However this is a more sensitive CMOS camera so you should be able to get S2, its also one of the reasons whey I said to get the order in early so it has all year to collect the data as it will need plenty
None the less LRGB HA OIII is also an epic image
Steve
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Steve,
Thanks for the swift reply. I'll stick with HOO and hope you don't mind. My main reason being that amount of imaging time is extremely limited and increased sensitivity will benefit those 2 filters the most in my 'umble opinion.
Cheers,
Ray
Thanks for the swift reply. I'll stick with HOO and hope you don't mind. My main reason being that amount of imaging time is extremely limited and increased sensitivity will benefit those 2 filters the most in my 'umble opinion.
Cheers,
Ray
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