I really need to do more Solar pretty soon Cycle 25 will be waning. Deep sky is tough as since I stroke some years ago I find I really need to sleep from 9 pm to 6 am.
I am a member of the SLOOH observatory, Astronomer member, I have been gathering tons of data, fits images, of various objects using the 17" and 20" scopes in the Canary Islands and Chile (soon to have Australia) but have been doing much processing because the wife doesn't want me on the PC that much as as you know between photography and Astronomy most of it is computer time, expect the hours I spent by the pond looking for BIF.
Some people feel that remote observatories are cheating, and I agree some are as you tell them what object, say M45, you want and they will send you a data file in a month or less with the fits images, but they choose the scope, day, time camera etc.
Slooh on the other hand you set up the imaging run on a telescope, tell it what filters to use and you can even slew to a specific point in space (RA/DEC) which people use the scopes for to try to find comets and asteroids. Then you have to determine the day and time, you can set up a run up to 7 days in advance, and then you have to deal with wind, clouds, satellites, moon glow, rain, basically just like running your own scope in your backyard. only you are one of many who use a scope.
Here is a screen shot of an imaging run I am doing right now for Caldwell 67 the x-ray galaxy. it is grainy but with enough imaging runs over a number of days months you can build up enough data to smooth out the image. my username on SLOOH is WX1USN my ham call.
I just get so busy doing stuff
