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Astrophotography with a remote telescope

By Gurbir Dated: November 17, 2022 Leave a Comment

Open University’s COAST telescope on Teneriffe

The best location for an astronomical telescope is on the top of a mountain. Remote, cold and a pain to get to. But with an internet connection – you can “work from home”.

During the summer, I signed up for a free Open University course called Astronomy with an online Telescope. With it you get access to a telescope on mount Tiede on the Island of Tenerife for 6 months.

This professional grade telescope COAST (COmpletely Autonomous Survey Telescope) consists of a 17 inch f/6.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham Astrograph telescope (a PlaneWave CDK17), is equipped with an FLI ProLine KAF-0900 CCD camera, broadband and narrow-band filters, also mounted on a GM4000. You pick which objects you want to image and select filters. A few days later, you receive an email that the image is ready for download.

The OU course is free and explains how to use the telescope as well as the many aspects of basic astronomy. The course is online, free and available right now. Some of my images are below. Click for a larger version.


M16 Eagle Nebula
14072022 at 222203UTC
M8 Lagoon Nebula
14052022 at 030453UTC
NGC6992
16102022 at 23156UTC
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
21102022 at 235612UTC
M20 Triffid Nebula
10052022 at 0241UTC
M42 Orion Nebula
21092022 at 034742UTC
NGC6946
23052022 at 231231 UTC
M45 Pleiades
30102022 at215101 UTC
IC5146
18062022 at 014050 UTC
M13 Hercules Cluster
20052022 at 205216 UTC
M57 Ring Nebula
16052022 at 001750 UTC
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
10052022 at 2235 UTC

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