Sleepy TelescopeSwan Reach remote rig
RCOS 16" on a Paramount ME with an ASI2600MM Pro: the remote rig I share at Swan Reach, South Australia.
The remote rig works under a roll-off roof at Swan Reach Imaging, in South Australia, under a Bortle 1 sky. I share it with Paride Gabini, Rino Morra, Federico Palaia and Alessio Carmine Scipione: it is operated with NINA, and the frames are collected jointly. Its images are in the Australia section.
- Telescope: RCOS 16", 16-inch Ritchey-Chrétien, 3660 mm (measured)
- Rotator: PrimaLuceLab
- Focuser: PrimaLuceLab, moves the secondary mirror
- Camera: ASI2600MM Pro, cooled monochrome APS-C, belonging to the rig
- Filters: ZWO EFW 7 × 2" filter wheel with Astrodon LRGBSHO 2" filters: E-series Gen 2 LRGB and 3 nm Ha, OIII and SII
- Guiding: off-axis guider with a ZWO ASI174MM Mini
- Power and USB: Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox Advance Gen2
- Mount: Paramount ME
- Thermal control: dew heaters and fans on the primary mirror
With the ASI2600MM Pro the field is about 0.37° × 0.25° (22′ × 15′) at 0.21″ per pixel, or 0.42″ per pixel binned 2 × 2.
Photo: Swan Reach Imaging.