Kevin,
The parameters you¡¯ve established are fine with me.
I used to be able to go to magnitude 14 and even 15 without breaking a sweat with my WATEC. In the last few years light pollution has increased dramatically, and now I¡¯m limited to about 12-13th magnitude, sometimes 14 if it¡¯s a high altitude star. Anything lower than 30¡ã altitude is a problem if sky conditions are not perfect. Of course longer durations are a big help.
But being able to glance through northeast events would be great, even if some of them are too faint.
I also have plans to set up the observatory 14¡± for auto data acquisition, while I go mobile to a second site with a portable scope. When Astrid gets finalized, I¡¯ll probably go that route.
Thanks for organizing this,
Rick Bria?
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