Caldwell 77

Caldwell 77 the Hamburger Galaxy in the southern hemisphere, or very low in the south from the north

Slooh Chile 17" Planewave
51 50 second Luminence images processed in Pixinsight, Lightroom, Photoshop

love it, very nice detail.

Incredible Jeff. I've attempted it from just south of Vegas but it only gets about 9° above the horizon as it crosses the meridian here so not that easy a target from here.

SiriusDoggy wrote in post #19310912
Incredible Jeff. I've attempted it from just south of Vegas but it only gets about 9° above the horizon as it crosses the meridian here so not that easy a target from here.

Thank you, that is why I rent time on the Slooh scopes, you get the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Canary Islands and the entire southern from Chile. To get good results from Slooh takes more work than sites like iTelescope, Roboscope, or Insight but Slooh is a bit more "hands-on" With the other sites you can get better results as they have more filters available and some better cameras and more scopes but you tell them the target and the filters you want to use and the exposures and they then do the work of scheduling making sure the images (subs) are good and they schedule it in the next 30 days and send you the files.

With Slooh it is more work, more like if I set up my scope like friends do so I could run it from my den once I open up. The big difference between a scope in the backyard, once it is set up and aligned, and Slooh is they own and maintain the equipment and it is opened and closed remotely with no one there. Next you have to search their schedule for open slots (they call them missions) you can schedule a mission anytime there is an open slot up to 7 days in advance but if the scopes are open when you are looking you can schedule a mission immediately you then use the goto function to either tell it to slew to a named object, like any NGC, or input coordinates (RA and DEC) to slew the scope to any part of the sky and image. You can then image using either the 4 filters or only the Lum (mono) the other remote observatories often allow more filters like OIII etc. So Slooh is limited there but I can work with it.
Slooh doesn't give you only the best images, they give you the raw fits images. They can have wind effects (oblong stars) or satellites or clouds. You have to go through your raw images and cull out the bad ones, there are more good than bad, you have to consider the moon phase as it is up to you to choose the time and whether the moon is up or not they don't say you can't image when the moon is full but you won't get as good results. To get say 21 minutes of good exposures I often shoot 45 or more minutes and cull them out.
From what I have seen using Insight Obs. a few times they only give you the good images and they only schedule at optimal times. That is up to me with Slooh.

BUT there is quite a cost difference! you can do Slooh for $100 a year for 1 mission at a time or my plan $300 for 5 missions at a time, I can schedule 5 slots/missions at a time and as soon as one finishes I can schedule another one with no limit on how many you can do in a year, you could do 30 or 40 a night 365 days a year.
The other remote scopes charge anywhere from $30 an hour to $60 an hour.

I am amazed when I see people do an image using 7 hours of data, that is up to $420 for a single image IT BETTER BE GOOD.

Last year I figure I used slooh for well over 300 hours for hundreds of NGC's the entire Messier and Caldwell catalogs, on other sites that would be around $18,000 worth of images - of course some of them you can get a yearly membership for $3,000 or so, but to me the $300 and the results I get are good enough for me.