THE STIRLAND OBSERVATORIES

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Updated  19.03.08  NGC6979 and M42 on the Nebula page.

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The Stirland Observatories on the UK Norfolk coast offers great dark rural skies overlooking the North sea.The Observatories and control room was designed and built by myself, and is home to a  10", F8 Astrosib RC, 110 and 80mm Whilliam Optics APO.  The use of these scopes affords great deep space, solar and planetary imaging.
All telescopes and observatories are remote linked and run by dedicated computers  for each observatory  from the control room using  "Robo focus" and  " The Sky6" software, a Losmandy G11 with Gemini 4.1 "goto" is used with the Astrosib RC. A EQ6 Pro with syncan is used with the refractors,
  

The main imaging camera is a SBIG ST10 XME and SXV-H9; fitted with the CFW8 and  True tec filter wheels. A Canon EOS 20D is used for wide field rich star field imaging, at prime focus or with some long focal lenght lenses on a AstroTrak.  For Planetary work a Lumenera Skynx 2 is used, this is also used for high ressolution Lunar imaging
A  Daystar  0.5nm Hydrogen-alpha filter, is used for solar imaging and Ha Nebula work is done with a Custom Scientific 4nm and 12nm filter, CCDops, Maxlm DL 4, is used for image taking. Image reduction is done in Photo shop CS, Maxlm DL 4, Images plus, registax, DSLR Focus and Deepsky Stacker are used with the Canon


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