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Partners required for exciting hands-on astronomical project.
I am looking for between 4 and 12 keen and committed amateur
astronomers to take part in an exciting new astronomical project. You do not need to own your own telescope to get involved although some previous experience of practical astronomy would be an advantage. You will be given remote Internet access to a Takahashi E250 with an SBIG ST8XE CCD (1530x1020 pixels) on a Paramount robotic mount. This high quality professional observatory equipment is located at high altitude in the darkest part of New Mexico. It is intended that the Daventry Nova Survey will take 60 second CCD images of all parts of the sky close to the galactic plane. This technique will comfortably reach magnitude 16 and since a nova will increase in brightness by anything between 7 and 19 magnitudes stars previously in the magnitude range 23 to 35 can come into range. There are lots of potential targets around - quite literally billions. My suspicion is that the percentage of novae in the range 12 to 16 that get reported is extremely close to zero yet the expected number of such objects, based on a detailed literature search, appears to be in the hundreds of thousands. If you would like to be considered for the team please contact me with brief details of your previous astronomical experience at |
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