40cm-Newton in a moonlit night

Since March 2014 the “White Elephant” was on duty on the AAR e.V.-observatory in Presberg.
In spite of the excellent optical quality of the telescope and the enormous efforts to enable remote-observing the photographic output was rather small.
Even visual observing was not pure pleasure; to reach the eyepiece of a large Newtonian telescope on a German mount in the dark often is an acrobatic act not to everyone's taste.
In 2024 I decided to relocate the White Elephant to a better location and to use it entirely photographically via remote access.

40cm-Newton under the clear sky of the Extremadura

Since September 2024 the telescope resides in an observatory of the remote-hosting facility e-EyE in the spanish Extremadura.
Sky quality reaches Bortle 2 on average; and even if the promised 250 to 270 clear nights are a bit optimistic there will be significantly more than in Presberg.
The technical data:
Mount: Astro-Physics 1200 GTO
Mirror: 405mm diameter, 2015mm focal length, material: Astrositall, manufacturer: Alluna Optics
Tube: Aramid-Carbon-sandwich, manufacturer: Klaus Helmerichs
Main and secondary mirror support: Carbon and aluminium, construction and realization: Ingo Smaglinski
Focuser: Feathertouch, focusing system: Microtouch
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro, Filter: Astronomik Typ 2c LRGB, Ha, O3

25cm-Newton

Since March 2018 the remote controlled 10-inch-Newton was my main instrument and workhorse.
The technical data:
Mount: 10Micron GM1000 HPS
Mirror: 250mm diameter, 1000mm focal length 1000mm (with Paracorr 1183mm), material: Schott borosilicate glass, manufacturer: Horia Costache
Tube: Carbon, manufacturer: Klaus Helmerichs
Main and secondary mirror support: GSO
Focuser: 3 inch Feathertouch with integrated VIP-3010 Paracorr, integration by Ingo Smaglinski
Focusing system: Microtouch
Camera: Moravian G3 16200, Filter: Astronomik Type II

At the beginning of 2023 the system was complemented by a 6" f5-GSO-Newton mounted in parallel and equipped with a Touptek 294CP and the Microtouch focusing system.

Both telescopes are controlled and synchronized by N.I.N.A. The Touptek supplies the colour data while the Moravian supplies the luminance- and the narrowband-frames.