Review and reference of iTelescope.net remote telescopes
Laurence
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The Reservations Pilot app at reservations.itelescope.net is now mapped and driven end to end: three-step WebForms flow (form GET, Refresh Plans postback with plan+times selected which enables Confirm, then Confirm), observatory-local times, 4-hour maximum, plan attachment causing iTelescope to auto-start the run at reservation start, and the reschedule flag that rebooks weather losses on the next free night. Crucial gotcha recorded: the confirm modal returns OK even when nothing was created (first attempt silently failed on the 4-hour rule), so verification against the grid is mandatory. Live reservations: 749227 (T59, NGC 6744, 00:05-03:45 SSO local 20 Jul), 749228 (T33, 47 Tuc test, 00:05-00:50 same night), 749229 (T33, NGC 6752, 00:05-00:50 following night). Ledger corrected: T59 moon discount is 0% until 21 Jul (the earlier 25% figure came from a Utah scope's grid), so the NGC 6744 estimate returns to ~240 pts. Monitoring crons replace the old starter crons since the scheduler now fires the plans itself. |
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| README.md | ||
| TARGETS.md | ||
| TELESCOPES.md | ||
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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.