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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 undertake with this pier is 900 seconds

Camera

FLI PL-16803 Mono CCD coupled to a FLI 10 position wheel and Astrodon 50mm unmounted LRGB & narrowband HA O3 S2 N2 3nm filters

All large glass Kodak sensors (apart from class 0) will have hot pixels and column defects which are completly normal, when you combine dithering, the supplied calibration frames and good user software calibration practices they are a none issue in the final image.

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
Kepler KL4040 CMOS 2x2 Binned
Filter Wheel
FLI 7 Position 50mm sqre
Filters
Astrodon 50mm sqr LRGB Ha-3nm o3-3nm s2-3nm n2-3nm
Guide Camera
None - Unguided
Guider
None - Unguided
Focuser
Planewave
Power & Dew Control
MHP V4

KAI-16803

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

N/A

  • 0.72° x 0.72°

  • .63" "/px @ 1x1 Binning

  • 2953mm Focal Length

  • F/6.8

  • 30º Imaging Horizon Limits

  • Camera Position Angle: 268° (Square Sensor)

  • Recommended sub lengths

Broadband Imaging

FilterBrightDim
Clear
n/a

n/a

Lum
30-120s

120-300s

Red
30-120s

120-300s

Green
30-120s

120-300s

Blue
30-120s

120-300s

Narrowband Imaging

FilterBrightDim
Ha
120-600s

600-900s

Hb
n/a

n/a

O3
120-600s

600-900s

S2
120-600s

600-900s

N2
120-600s

600-900s

  • 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

  • 10s Darks

  • 30s Darks

  • 60s Darks

  • 90s Darks

  • 120s Darks

  • 180s Darks

  • 300s Darks

  • 600s Darks

  • 900s Darks

  • Bias Frames

    • Flat Frames - L, R, G, B, Ha, o3, S2

If you choose more individual sub lengths eg 550s, then darks are not included in the price and are taken for you on an individual basis. Please add darks to your imaging run in checkout.

Field of view examples

M16 The Eagle Nebula

M31 The Andromeda Galaxy

M42 The Orion Nebula

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