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  • Silver Membership - Free for Life*

To image with any of our systems, you simply join our site for FREE, join a syndicate or pay for hourly time and image away

  • Gold Membership €100 yearly - The benefits

  • Heavily discounted hourly tokens
  • Discounted rates for dataset purchases
  • €50 discount voucher towards a syndicate membership

The Nuts & bolts

Our location:

Latitude:   38° 13' 10.89" North
Longitude:   6° 37' 54.32" West
Altitude:   560 metres
Timezone: Western Europe

After you have placed your order your image request will be added to our system which prioritizes orders based on an algorithm that takes into account lots of factors like;

  • Horizon Limits

  • Meridian

  • Moon below horizon

  • Rising & Setting times

  • Moon avoidance in relation to chosen filters

Broadband filters orders generally take longer to complete than narrowband orders as the moon has less of an impact with narrowband imaging which allows you to gather more narrowband data throughout the month. Hydrogen Alpha for instance is very forgiving even with a full moon.

Depending upon some of the above as well as weather and sky conditions it may take anything from 7-28 days to deliver your data so when booking please use foresight and don’t book an object setting on the west not long after astronomical dark or one that only rises to 30degree above the horizon for 90 minutes. In essence be smart about it 😀

 Please choose objects that are rising or on the east side or closer to the meridian. If on the west side make sure they are placed high in the sky as it will give us the ability to complete your order in a timely manner. If however, you still book an object while ignoring our recommendations we will do our best to fufill your request unless we feel it is an impossible  task.

  • Our booking form will give suggestions for sub lengths for each filter depending on type of target you choose, LRGB Narrowband, Dark nebular etc. Expert users will obviously choose there own sub lengths

  • The booking form also contains field of view as well as pixel scale measurements

  • Our equipment page has real world examples of the FOV using well known objects  to help with subject selection.

  • Online library of calibration files for standard sub lengths, special calibration files lengths are available upon request

  • Upon completion of your order you will be emailed a link to download your data from, this link will remain live for 2 weeks

  • Please be aware our booking form is charged by the hour, if you choose over 3600seconds in total in imaging time you will be charged for the next full hour on so on!

  • Each pier has a FREE standard dark library that correlate to the most common subs lengths used, if you choose more individual sub lengths then please add darks to your imaging run in checkout

Imaging seasons

Spain's main imaging season is late spring until early winter, we have 2 periods of unpredictable weather due to the Atlantic basin westerlies being the main driving force for the whole of the lower Mediterranean area.

Late autumn/Early winter - a shorter high haze/humidity period with some rain
Late winter/Early Spring - A longer period of high rain levels

We do get imaging periods during these times but they vary in length and cannot be predicted 

During these periods, we suggest checking the weather forecast before placing your request so we are able to collect the data efficiently for you in a reasonable timescale, especially if it's a data set with time constraints or a transient nature.

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