Pier 8 - Medium FOV

Planewave 17" CDK F/6.8 Dall Kirkham

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Telescope

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.

Please note: The maximum sub length we will do on this pier is 900s

Camera

FLI ML16803 Mono CCD Camera 52mm Diagonal Sensor

Telescope

Planewave 17" CDK

Camera

Kepler KL4040 CMOS (pictured not updated as of yet)

Mount

Planewave L-500

  • Telescope

    Planewave 17" CDK

  • Camera

    Kepler KL4040 CMOS (pictured not updated as of yet)

  • Mount

    Planewave L-500

Equipment List

Telescope
Planewave CDK17 17" F/6.8 Dall Kirkham
Mount
Planewave L-500 Fork Mount
Camera
FLI ML16803 CCD
Filter Wheel
ZWO 7 Position 50mm square
Filters
Chroma 50mm sqr LRGB Ha-5nm o3-5nm s2-5nm
Guide Camera
ZWO 174Mini
Guider
None - Unguided
Focuser
Planewave
Power & Dew Control
MHP V4

KAF-16803

Back illumiated Sensor
36.8 x 36.8mm
4096x4096pixels
9µm
Bayer Matrix Parameters

N/A

  • 0.72° x 0.72°

  • 0.63"/px

  • 2953mm Focal Length

  • F/6.8

  • 30º Imaging Horizon Limits

  • Camera Position Angle: TBA

  • Recommended sub lengths

Broadband Imaging

FilterBrightDim
Clear
n/a

n/a

Lum
60-300s

300-600s

Red
60-300s

300-600s

Green
60-300s

300-600s

Blue
60-300s

300-600s

Narrowband Imaging

FilterBrightDim
Ha 5nm
60-180s

180-300s

Hb
n/a

n/a

O3 5nm
60-180s

180-300s

S2 5nm
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
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

  • 30s Darks

  • 60s Darks

  • 90s Darks

  • 120s Darks

  • 180s Darks

  • 300s Darks

  • 600s Darks

  • 900s Darks

  • Bias Frames

  • Flat Frames

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