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Originally Posted by robgreaves
On principle, I won't be fielding an entry to the competition - it's a lot of effort to go to, to pack my truck to a checklist to lug all my kit a few hundred km inland to a dark sky site, set up, balance the rig in all axes, put all the wiring together, meticulously polar align, focus, frame the shot, focus again, autoguide, run the exposures, create darks, wait for dawn and create a good set of flats etc. only to be beaten in the competition by an armchair astronomer with remote access to someone elses superior kit who has to do none of the above effort except collect an email with the .fits data from his email inbox and process it.
I'm not trying to create any enemies here, I'm just looking at this pragmatically. I'd be interested to hear if others can't see my point.
Regards,
Rob.
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Rob,
Well said Rob, precisely what I was going to say !
(well except for the bit about having to travel outback
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clear skies
Paul