Review and reference of iTelescope.net remote telescopes
Laurence
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Processing the 21 Jul Centaurus A data showed the nucleus is saturated: a single 300 s luminance sub reads 65313 ADU in the core, so the deep stack is clipped there and the core cannot be recovered by processing. The only fix is more data at shorter exposures. plans/hdrcore-t32.txt is that data: L 8x60s, 8x15s and 8x5s plus RGB 5x30s, all BIN2 so the frames register against the deep stack without rescaling. The ladder spans a factor of 60 below the 300 s subs, which covers the unknown true peak of the nucleus, and the RGB gives the core its colour. 18.2 minutes of imaging, about 25 points. Uploaded to T32 and verified byte-identical, then booked for the evening of 22 Jul, 18:50-19:50 SSO local, which is the same window in which the deep run actually succeeded (T32 has a 35 degree elevation floor and Cen A is an evening target). Verified in MySummary; quota now 7:05 of 8:00. The wider point is recorded in CAMPAIGN.md: bright targets need a short set budgeted alongside the deep run. NGC 6744 has already been shot without one, and 47 Tuc and the SMC in queue #5 will certainly need one, a globular cluster core being the fastest thing there is to saturate. |
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itelescope
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.