Rent-a-scope

Observatory located in New Mexico

at New Mexico Skies

Interested in setting up your own remote observatory at New Mexico Skies?

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Some details about New Mexico Skies a guest observatory and our host

• Time Zone: GMT -7:00 New Mexico, USA.
• Mountain Standard Time - Daylight Saving Time Observered
• Latitude: 32° 54' 14" - Decimal Value: 32.90389 North
• Longitude: 105° 31' 44" West - Decimal Value: 105.52889 West
• Elevation: 7300 Feet - 2,225.04 meters
• MPC Code: H06

In order to enhance your imaging pleasure,

Rent-a-scope

Provides the following features

• Approximately 250 nights a year of operation
• The Darkest Skies in North America
• Excellent seeing conditions
• Takahashi Mewlon-300 Telescope
• Takahashi Epsilon E250 Astrograph
• Takahashi Sky-90 APO Refractor
• FLI Dream Machine CCD Camera
• SBIG ST8XE NAGB CCD Camera
• SBIG ST8XE Anti-Blooming CCD Camera
• SBIG ST-10XME CCD Camera
• Paramount GT1100s Mount
• Paramount ME Mount
• Full T1 landline Premium Internet connection
• Custom Scientific LRGB Filters
• Custom Scientific Ha Filters
• Browser Astronomy Software
• Calibration Frames Provided (MaxIM DL Compliant)
• High Speed Image Download Capacity

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