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Chip Payet wrote:
Absolutely incredible! My jaw is now trying to recover from dropping to the floor twice.......first on seeing the photo, second time was seeing the setup! I imagine the old saying applies, "If you have to ask how much it costs, you probably can't afford it."
Seriously.....just to keep me from actually considering something like that, may I ask what that setup costs?
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing picture.
Thanks so much Chip. The cost is very high, in the many thousands - one astro camera is $8~9k and you can't even look through it . A set of filters - $850 and that's for RGB only - H-alpha and narrow band is more and we always use these. It's not only the hardware, but also the software, computers etc. The telescopes are driven remotely from my home office. That entails a main comp and a laptop by the telescopes.
But, the time to learn the craft is in my opinion the most expensive part. Hundreds of hours reading and hundreds of hours experimenting. You have to love it!
Thanks again!
Best,
Jose
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