Friday, February 7, 2020

First picture with COAST telescope on Tenerife

As part of the OpenLearn course I was able to make my first picture using the COAST telescope on Tenerife. This robotoc telescope is located in the Teide telescope parc in Tenerife. It's a 14inch Celestron and the request of pictures happens through the Telescope.org website after registration. My first request was M104 Sombrero galaxy. I used the standard setting with exposure time of 120s and standard RGB. A couple of hours later the sytem confirmed my request and I received my first picture using a remote telescope. I can not compare yet with my TAL200K but picture looks quit sharp, knowing it's almost full moon.
Some learning to do on working with timing,.. and downloading and editing Fits files..