
Since April 2026 the IAS 10″ remote telescope “Lukas” features a piggybacked Epsilon-130 with an ASI2600MC one-shot-color camera, with a way wider field of view than the main telescope. Ideal for comets und overview images.
The first test target was – of course, under southern skies – the vast expanse of the Carina Nebula, just a bit more than two hours of exposure time.
Many thanks to Thomas Klemmer for providing the scope and the camera.
More details at Astrobin.
IAS – Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V.– Hakos Observatory, Namibia
IAS remote telescope Takahashi Epsilon-130 f/3.3, 10 Micron GM3000 HPS, ASI2600MC
68x 120s, gain 100, offset 50, -5C, 80 flats, 30 darks, 50 bias
Total time: 8160s / 2h16
Data acquisition May 2026: IAS remote team / Martin Junius
Data calibration/integration: PixInsight WBPP
Image processing: PixInsight, BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator, Lightroom
