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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, 101 and 80mm APOS. Are used for 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 AP 900 is used with the Astrosib RC. A Losmndy G11 with Gemini 4.1 GOTO is used with the refractors,
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The main imaging cameras are a SBIG ST10 XME, QSi 583, using Astrodon LRGB filters, Canon EOS 50D (modified) and Canon EOS500D (un moded) are used for wide field imaging, at prime focus or with lenses on a AstroTrak. For Planetary and Lunar imaging a Lumenera Skynx 2 is used. A Daystar Quatum 0.5nm Ha filter, is used for solar imaging, CCDops, Maxlm DL 5, is used for image capture. Image maipulation is done in Photo shop CS5, Registax, and Deepsky Stacker are used with the Canon EOS
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