Hello everyone,

I have only recently started to observe remotely here at Skygems and I am very enthusiastic! I would like to use it in the future mainly to photograph objects in the southern hemisphere that I can't see from Germany or only with difficulty. Besides, I don't have nearly as much great equipment as we can use here 😉

I saw on the dashboard that someone had also photographed the Running Chicken Nebula with the FSQ106 in Namibia. That made me wonder if we could work together in the future. The intention behind this is not to harm Lukas' business or anything like that. I just thought that it would have certain advantages for everyone. I wouldn't have to reduce my exposure time for an object, but I also wouldn't have to increase it in order to expose an object sufficiently. This would give others the chance to take their turn earlier. Likewise, the telescope would not switch seasonally between the 3 most popular objects, but the number of different objects would increase significantly. The telescope would therefore be just as busy as before.

If anyone is interested, please feel free to get in touch with me, provided it's okay with Lukas!

CS
Dominik

11 days later

HI @copernicus508 ,

it's ok for my side. It is actually a feature we were thinking about... Say, you see that somebody is imaging an object you would like. We could add a "request data share" or something like that, and if the user agrees the costs would somehow be splitted between the two (or more), maybe with a little margin for us 🙂

Does this sound like a decent idea?

CS
Lukas

    lukas_demetz

    Hi Lukas,

    that sounds great! I would be very happy about such a feature. And it's logical that you should also benefit from it! I think it's a win-win situation for everyone.

    Thanks for your reply 🙂

      Will see how to implement this.
      I am quite busy right now at my daytime job so it will take a little while 🙂

      Hi!
      I only want to say that I'm also supporting this idea, it would be very useful for comets that are low in the sky at dusk/dawn and the observing time is very limited 🙂