(Spelling mistake in the title: “If money was NO object…”
I’m curious what people’s dream rigs would be. Any why?
What specifically about your rig make its ideal for what you wanna shoot?
I’m not quite at the point where I can confidently build a dream rig myself without lots of research and suggestions so i think it’ll be fun to hear from the experts :)
At this point, if i were an eccentric rich guy, i would buy 100 seestars, arrange them in a grid and then shoot the same object.
I guess for me it with be a well mounted, relatively fast, 12 to 16 inch Newtonian in a small observatory. This would be wonderful for deep sky in various configurations and would be large enough in aperture to really deliver on the Moon and Planets.
If money was truly no object, I would station a range of telescopes at two locations:
A Northern hemisphere set at some place like the canary islands
A southern hemisphere rig in Chile
Each would be populated with a range of scopes from widefield refractors to 24” CDK. They would all have Chroma mono filters and each would be mounted with the largest sensor they could support. Each would be configured with automated tilt correcting devices. All mounts would be premium (10 Micron, AP etc.). I would also have a superfast workstation, probably running Linux that could crunch the data sent very quickly. I might also hire someone (one at each location) to manage these scopes and make such mechanical corrections as are necessary. I’d also travel to these places and enjoy the dark skies.
I told my wife a while back that if we hit the lottery, we were moving to darker skies, and I was going to get a William Optics Pleiades 181 Septuplet APO Refractor with a mount and camera to match it.
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a little 39m ….