The observatory is a simple roll-off design located in our house flat roof terrace Mount is Astro-Physics 1200 GTO on an Astro-physics pier This is the ASA N10 Astrograph in it f/3.6 configuration This is the homebrew VC200L carbon truss in its f/9 configuration
The observatory is remotely controled from the in-house control room
Main camera is SBIG
STL-11000M with 8 position filter wheel, AO-L adaptative optics
Ligth pollution is intense at the site, there are tall street lamps nearby
Weather safety
conditions for deepsky imaging are monitored by AAG Cloudwatcher cloud sensor Click here for the Weather Station Dashboard ©
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