Telescopes

The Saskatoon Centre has made its telescopes available for rent to RASC members on a monthly basis. We have three Sky-Watcher 8-inch Dobsonian telescopes, each with a kit of eyepieces and Antares 8x50 right-angle finder scopes. We also have one Telrad Reflex Sight.

Progress and preparation for Skynet, December 21, 2019.

Daryl Janzen writes: Here are a couple of videos [outside, inside] I just took from home of the Sleaford roll-off opening and closing. The PROMPT telescope pier will be where the black stool is sitting between the closest and next closest telescopes to the cameras.

Scott and I were out at Sleaford a couple of days this week getting all the control wiring done, and Kim and I went out again today to sort out some computer issues. I captured the videos on my phone just now through the Reolink app while running MaxDome through TeamViewer on my laptop.

I have a few odds and ends to finish setting up on the computer, and we're waiting for the telescope mount to arrive in ~February to finish off the pier and install the telescope, but this marks a significant milestone towards setting up the Skynet robotic telescope at Sleaford, and participating in multi-messenger astronomy at the U of S!