Roboscopes Pier 8

Telescope & Camera

Planewave CDK 17” f/6.8 Dall Kirkham, a good quality instrument with a large flat field and pretty fast optics, a large aperture high resolution light bucket.

It's fitted with ZWO's 6200 which is fitted with Sony's back illuminated zero amp glow 35mm sensor. This pier is also fitted with Antilia's latest gen LRGB HOS 3nm imaging filters, which should make the most of the Planewave's superb optics

In most cases the maximum sub length we will do on this pier is 300s, for most of the brighter objects shorter subs will be better however

Recommended sub lengths

Filter	Bright	Dim
Lum	10-120s	120-300s
Red	10-120s	120-300s
Green	10-120s	120-300s
Blue	10-120s	120-300s
Ha 3nm	60-180s	180-300s
O3 3nm	60-180s	180-300s
S2 3nm	60-180s	180-300s

Calibration Files

10s Darks
20s Darks
30s Darks
60s Darks
90s Darks
120s Darks
180s Darks
240s Darks
300s Darks
Bias Frames
Flat Frames

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

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Pier Equipment & Specifications

Telescope	Planewave CDK17 17" F/6.8 Dall Kirkham
Mount	Planewave L-500 Fork Mount
Camera	ZWO ASI-6200MM Pro
Filter Wheel	ZWO 7 Position
Filters	Antilia 3nm
Guide Camera	ZWO 174Mini - backup only
Guider	None - Unguided
Focuser	Planewave
Power & Dew Control	MHP V4