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Pier 9 - Small FOV

16" F/6.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham

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Telescope

Very few people have a long enough focal length telescope and Skies to image up close and personal but this one at 2720mm when combined with a an APS-c CMOS sensor manages to juggle FOV while still keeping a decent image scale of smaller objects like planetary nebula, globs and other interesting objects.

We have left the camera at 1x1 binning when imaging so users can software bin in post processing to suit the seeing etc, we do not guarantee that you can leave this setup at 1x1bin to process your image as 2x2 & 3x3 binning gives more appropriate sampling with this focal length

Please note: The maximum sub length we will do on this pier is 300s

CMOS Camera

The ZWO ASI-2600MM Pro Mono CMOS is one of Sony's new generation zero ampglow sensors. They are super sensitive with very low noise. Making them a paradym shift from the CCD cameras we are all used to using and require much shorter exposures

This camera is set to Gain 100 as our default.

Telescope

16" F/6.8 Corrected Dall Kirkham

Camera

ZWO 2600 MM Pro Mono APS-c

Mount

ASA DDM85XL

  • Telescope

    16" F/6.8 Corrected Dall Kirkham

  • Camera

    ZWO 2600 MM Pro Mono APS-c

  • Mount

    ASA DDM85XL

Equipment List

Telescope
16" F/6.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham
Mount
ASA DDM85XL
Camera
ZWO 2600 MM Pro Mono CMOS
Filter Wheel
ZWO 50mm 7 Position
Filters
Antlia 36mm Unmounted LRGBHOS 3nm Filters
Guide Camera
ZWO ASI-174 Mini
Guider
ZWO OAG
Focuser
Optec Gemini 85
Power & Dew Control
Mount Hub Pro V4

IMX-571

Back illuminated CMOS Sensor
23.5x15.7mm
6248x4176pixels
3.76µm
Bayer Matrix Parameters

N/A

  • 0.49° x 0.33°

  • 0.28"/px - Post Process Software Binning

  • 2740mm Focal Length

  • F/6.8

  • 35º Imaging Horizon Limits

  • Camera Position Angle: -°

  • Recommended sub lengths

Broadband Imaging

FilterBrightDim
Clear
n/a

n/a

Lum
30-120s

120-300s

Red
30-120s

120-300s

Green
30-120s

120-300s

Blue
30-120s

120-300s

Narrowband Imaging

FilterBrightDim
Ha 3nm
60-180s

180-300s

HB
n/a

n/a

O3 3nm
60-180s

180-300s

S2 3nm
60-180s

180-300s

N2
N/A

N/A

  • Imaging subjects with brighter cores will of course require shorter sub lengths for HDR, your personal experience will be needed to gauge this yourself.

  • Please remember this is only a guide above, we are just trying to help you have the best experience possible remote imaging with Roboscopes.

  • Roboscopes supply the site and control the equipment but you choose everything else from filters, object/co-ordinates to sub lengths. So you need to exercise due diligence and experience when booking because if you fill the booking form out with incorrect details then you will get precisely that.

  • It is not Roboscopes responsibility to check your detailed requirements after you have booked.

  • Filter weights

Get accurate star colours with our filter weights

FilterWeight
Lum

TBA

Red

TBA

Green

TBA

Blue

TBA

Calibration Files

This pier has a FREE calibration library, this includes a dark library that correlates to the most common subs lengths used, see below

  • 5s Darks

  • 10s Darks

  • 20s Darks

  • 30s Darks

  • 45s Darks

  • 60s Darks

  • 90s Darks

  • 120s Darks

  • 180s Darks

  • 240s Darks

  • 300s Darks

  • Flat Frames - L, R, G, B, Ha, o3, S2

If you choose more individual sub lengths eg 550s, then darks are not included in the price and are taken for you on an individual basis. Please add darks to your imaging run in checkout.

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