Review and reference of iTelescope.net remote telescopes
Laurence
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Adds TARGETS.md, a target guide for the southern iTelescope sites (Siding Spring Q62, Deep Sky Chile X07) built around UK visibility: from lat 51.5°N anything below dec -38° never rises and dec -25° to -38° culminates under ~15° altitude. Targets are tiered accordingly (never visible vs hopeless), grouped by region (Magellanic Clouds, Carina/Crux, Centaurus, Ara/Scorpius tail, far-southern galaxies, SNR/planetaries), and each is matched to the best scope from TELESCOPES.md with the field-of-view reasoning in the notes. Includes a seasonal booking calendar (evening sky by quarter from the southern sites, with the Q62 30-35° minimum-elevation caveat), a suggested first campaign for July-August (free T33 globulars, T71 narrowband on Ara/ Scorpius, T73 on NGC 6744, then T8 on the Magellanic Clouds in Oct-Nov), and cost-shape notes (fast scopes for nebulae, dark-of-moon for LRGB). README links the new guide; state/TODO.md records the addition. |
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Reference and review of the iTelescope.net remote telescope network: every telescope, its specs, what it is good at, and which one to book for a given target.
- TELESCOPES.md: the full review, grouped by observatory, with a "choosing a telescope" guide at the end.
- TARGETS.md: southern-sky targets invisible from the UK, matched to scopes and to the time of year to book them.
- data/itelescope-telescopes.csv: snapshot of the network's maintained specs sheet (source of truth for the numbers).
- state/: project state under the Default Workflow.
Sources: the iTelescope support article (telescope summary) and the network's maintained Google Sheet. The launchpad at go.itelescope.net is login-only.