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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Yeah that could work too I guess 
Mike |
Hi Mike,
Yes - maybe 1 meter is too ambitious but imagine if say 5
keen amateur astronomers sold all their equipment then used that money
combined to get a hard core large RC or classic Cassegrain in one of those
astronomy places that looks after many telescopes for a fee in
a proper dark location operated remotely.
The fee would be divided by 5.
What about 2 identical smaller telescopes on one large mount -
one with an OAG doing 1x1 binned luminance & the other bolted on the side doing 2x2 binned RGB colour?
You'd have more top quality data than one person could process.
I'm thinking about it as Melbourne is just too cloudy.
We don't all have the resources to have our own observatory.
cheers
Allan