Form A Group To Use Deep Sky West To Do Spectroscopy Remotely

brownrb1
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 18:07

Hi, 

I've just moved to an apartment in town where any serious observing is impossible. There is an organization, Deep Sky West, outside of Santa Fe, NM-where I live-that rents space where you can setup you own equipment in their remote roll off roof observatory. It costs about $700/month, which is outside my finanial means. I would be interested in forming a group of 4 or 5 people to share the cost and also share experience and expertise. I have a 10" Meade SCT with an Alpy 600 with guiding and calibration modules. I've posted some of my spectra profiles in the AAVSO Spectoscopic Database under observer 'BRIE'.

Thanks

Dick Brown 

Robin__Leadbeater
Affiliation
British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (BAA-VSS)
remote alpy operation

Hi Dick,

You might know them already but a group which might be able  to give advice in setting up a remote system  is the 2SPOT team who are running a remote ALPY600 setup in Chile from France

https://2spot.org/EN/

Several of the members hang out on the ARAS forum where they post some of their results

Cheers

Robin