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[djellison]

I was at an Instruments and Imaging section meeting of the BAA this weekend and two of the talks were about Robotic Telescopes. The Bradford scope is actually, on Mt Teide and is free to use. Nick James talked about the Faulkes North scope which the BAA has had very bad results with - not the scope - the weather and the infrastructure. When it works however, it is utterly awesome.

These are two results I've had with the Bradford scope ( www.telescope.org ) - I'm really not an observational astronomer, and I think there are bugs within the system up at Teide, it's tracking isn't great over exposures > 60 seconds on the scopes camera - but these are two results I've had - NGC2903 and Comet Lovejoy. The first is with the 'galaxy' camera (the 14" scope) and the second with the 'cluster' camera (a 200mm Nikon lens)

NGC2903 is a combo of 2 minute exposures in R, G, B and clear - and Lovejoy is a 60sec exposure in R, G and B.


Both are Copyright © University of Bradford. (it's free to use, so I think that's fair enogh!)

I'm going to give myself $100's worth of time at Global Rent A Scope and try and get something better of Lovejoy, see how it goes

Doug

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