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Please do let us know how you get on.

If you use the inline sales website named after a river, go to smile.Amazon.co.uk and you can select to have donations made to Scottish DarkSkiesObservator

Or https://www.esperhq.com/product/multiple-camera-trigger-triggerbox/

I https://www.breezesys.com/how-to-trigger-multiple-canon-cameras-at-the-same-time/

I also remembered I have adapter for Skywatcher Crawford (bought for the Esprit 80 pro), again, not tried.

FLO have an adapted for the EAF to attach to a C8, I took delivery on one this am.

I’m hoping to see a crowd funding that I can contribute to to come up so they can get back up and running. That’s in addition to the Charity funding option already available.

Until I got my 1st ASIAir PRO, I had a stick PC running SGPro, Stellarium etc. etc. Image and guide cameras plus focuser on each OTA. Worked well. Still does.

It was more an aide memoire to those who’ve not don’t dark flats yet. Agreed, would be nice to have.

ASIAir Pro also provides power distribution in the same case. Just saying

I take darks, and flat-darks using the ASIAir Por. Take FLATS, note the exposure, Create a schedule for DARKS and set the exposure to that used for your FLATS - remembering to cover the lens oops 😳 Copy all the data to the machine used for processing, Create a new folder, called FLAT-DARKS move the FLAT-DARKS to the new folder. My preference is to keep FLATS and FLAT-DARKS under the lights folder for that session, although I date/time stamp file names any way. For BIAS and DARKS I just maintain a library. Because the new CMOS cameras do not produce a lot of heat during flats due to the short exposure, an alternative is to use a master BIAS as your FLAT-DARK.

Don’t know if it will be useful but I posted the trials and tribulations associated with collimating my 10” CF

ah, sorry. I thought you were talking about data storage - my bad. I understand the concept of using remote observatories, I have considered using these a few times, but never actually been convinced of cost/benefit. However, I have different circumstances to yourself. Re your own gear, it is partly down to whether you want to observe or image, and what targets you have a preference for. Plus of course, budget. I understand that the majority of people have suffered from income reduction in the past 18 months and mean no offence to those who have been affected. However, again, compare the cost of a remote observatory (once you have to pay) vs putting that amount away every month. A goto mount can be had for under £400 - as a wine drinker I put that as a cheaper bottle of wine a day for just under 7 weeks ( I do not drink a bottle of wine a night :)) Check the Sale/Swap forum, lots of gear comes up there. If that is over budget, I know that there are motors available for Skywatcher EQ mounts, wonder if there are any such for the EQ mount you have? at the end of the day, if. You have free access just now, milk it

Image copyright is owned by the person who takes the image, unless they place it in the public domain or otherwise make it available. I found this out when I wanted to use a picture of myself on the BBC website, and found that I do not own copyright on my image. Consider to cost of using a remote observatory vs cost of your own mount, something this an EQ or AVX would support the OTA plus upgrades over several years. Storage costs these days are almost negligible, you can get a couple of terabytes online for less than a tenner a month. Or multi terabyte drives are around £100. Returning to your original question, i suppose it depends on whether you just want to process some other person’s data, or your data. My preference it to get my own data. There is another member who images from a room in their home in Glasgow who produces better than excellent images. I cant remember her name at the moment

Initially, my first thought would be that the COAST image copyright would not be yours, so, worth reading through the rules involved. Take your own images, you own copyright and can do what you want. It may be that COAST put images in the Public Domain, so this isn’t an issue. When you receive the images would depend how many others in front of you in the queue. Yes, the images are likely to be better than you can achieve initially, but over time you will improve, and if you concentrate on one or two targets you will after a while accumulate more, and better, data to process.

I doubt that many would take that final step, although it is something that would be nice to have. Maybe something like PixInsight can go that extra step? Having said that, just before I hit submit, it occurred that people may want to maximise the green for NB filters.

As I understand it, the binning will be done by software, rather than hardware binning as implemented on many CCD cameras. So, I suspect that software binning for a CMOS OSC, would look at a 4 x 4 grid and pick the 4 Red cells and combine them, repeating for Green and Blue and repeat this across the grid. I also found this: https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/tutorials/everything-you-need-to-know-about-astrophotography-pixel-binning-the-fundamentals.html +1 to @DaveS‘ reply.

Life but now as we know it. Turn it around and us carbon based are life unknown to the rest of the silicon based aliens

I might crack open a bottle of Highland Park Odin this evening as it’s Father’s Day tomorrow, so, I am allowed a lie-in

I assume. You mean steam valves

Damn right it beautiful - best country on the planet. The wild Haggis are an issue in breeding season tho’. Vicious little sods. Still bear the scars on my arms from a hunt. Tonight sunset it 22:03, sun rise 04:28.

Oh, and there was definite orange/red sun glow on the horizon all night and bright skies - civilian darkness only, so you can see perfectly well.

My first night with very few clouds last night, so got my first session since last year - two nights in April where a disaster. So, first light from Bode’s Nebulae on the RedCat using an ASI183MC-Pro cooled. No PA, no guiding, no calibration. Edited in iPad with Lightroom and Photoshop. I have posted this in another forum, but, <shrug>

Bode’s Nebulae AVX Redcat 51 ASIAir Pro, ASI 183MC Pro cooled (both courtesy @Tim C), ZWO EAF Unguided no calibration, didn’t even bother with PA 200 x 10s processed using Lightroom and Photoshop on iPAD Pro 2020

Unless it has bee sitting out side for a couple of years without a lens cover, I’d be tempted to leave it.