Dale Ghent

@daleghent.com

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FOSS astro-imaging software Observatory systems Automation and data storage Maryland 🦀 Owner/Operator of @eros.daleghent.com

Time lapse video of a telescope doing its thing over the course of a night.
Video showing my EROS1 remote telescope, with a peculiar beam in the norther sky at the 1:26am timestamp in the video. Actual local time is -2 hours from what the timestamp claims.
A block diagram that shows how image and telemetry data flows from my remote telescope in New Mexico to my home data center via Starlink, Google's infrastructure, and my Verizon FiOS line in Maryland. My colocated server is a supporting cast member.
Galaxy Messier 106 (M 106). 18 Hours of total integration from a PlaneWave Instruments CDK14 and QHY600M camera at Howling Coyote Remote Observatories near Pie Town, NM.
Elliptical galaxy M 87 with a plasma jet emanating from its core.
Globular cluster M3 captured through Sloan g', r', and i' filters on a PlaneWave Instruments CDK14 and QHY600M camera at Howling Coyote Remote Observatories, New Mexico. 42 hours total integration time.
Linear regression of ToupTek ATR585M in Low Conversion Gain mode. R-squared of 0.999982
Photograph centered on host star of TOI-3919b with AGN galaxy NGC 5390 close by. Nearby galaxies such as UGC 8841 and NGC 5358 are also visible.
A screenshot of NINA and a unix terminal window that demonstrates the retrieval of star FWHM metrics from the Alcor Cyclope seeing monitor via an ASCOM/Alpaca Observing Conditions service.