Pier-8 Equipment List

Telescope	Planewave CDK17 17" F/6.8 Dall Kirkham
Mount	Planewave L-500 Fork Mount
Camera	FLI Kepler 4040fi CMOS
Filter Wheel	FLI 10 Position 50mm square
Filters	Astrodon 50mm sqr LRGB Ha, O3, S2, N2 3nm + HB 8nm He2 10nm
Guide Camera	ZWO 174Mini - backup only
Guider	None - Unguided
Focuser	Planewave
Power & Dew Control	MHP V4

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.

Camera

Fitted with FLI's latest and greatest generation Kepler 4040fi 52mm diagonal camera, This camera is exceptionally sensitive and requires very short exposures for all types of imaging

In most cases the maximum sub length we will do on this pier is 180s, if your object is exceptionally dim with no bright stars in the field you may request 300s exposures. However, in 99% of cases they are simply not needed with this particular sensor's characteristics!

Filters

This pier is fitted with every conceivable filter you would dream of owning, as it's fitted with FLI's largest 10 position 50mm x 50mm filter wheel

It even has Helium II, so imaging planetary nebula becomes a whole heap more interesting

LRGB are Astrodon Gen2
HA O3 S2 N2 are all Astrodon 3nm
HB is 8nm
He2 is 10nm

Roboscopes "New" Syndicate Format

We have decided to do Pier-8 a little differently to the other syndicate and hope over time to implement so of these features into the other syndicates

A maximum of 10 syndicate members
24 Collaborated jobs inputted into the system for the year, inputted 6 per QTR, Potential candidates for the following QTR are suggested by Roboscopes+members & voted on by during the previous QTR
Each member can request up to 18 hours of data per month for personal datasets (based upon our SNR calculator)
Each job has to be run through our SNR calculator in order to calculate imaging time required so if it only needs 2 hours then that's what it gets but likewise if it needs 5/18 hours then it will tell you*
Use our sub length calculator to get the sub lengths for each filter*
Use our filter calculator to determine the filter split
Wherever possible, book jobs rising on the East side
Retakes can be put back in as a new job with no loss of your personal imaging time, just add a note to say it's a retake
All data will be shared the following day via Google Drive
Dedicated Pier-8 area and Telegram notifications
If we find the pier does have extra headroom, we could add some standard jobs, mosaics or collaborations into the pier & the odd "Steve special" job.
Members with Roboscopes help use more of the sky to allow for moon avoidance over the month, rather than image in just one area of the sky

* Some of the new features/tools will be coming online over the next 4/8 weeks as we implement them

GPixel GSense4040

Back illumiated Sensor
36.8 x 36.8mm
4096x4096pixels
9µm

0.72° x 0.72°
0.63"/px
2953mm Focal Length
F/6.8
30º Imaging Horizon Limits
Camera Position Angle: 359º

Recommended sub lengths

Filter	Bright	Dim
Lum	10-30s	30-60s
Red	10-30s	30-120s
Green	10-30s	30-120s
Blue	10-30s	30-120s
Ha 3nm	60-120s	120-180s
O3 3nm	60-120s	120-180s
S2 3nm	60-120s	120-180s
N2 3nm	60-120s	120-180s
Hb 8nm	60-120s	120-180s
He2 10nm	60-120s	120-180s