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=TTL (Telescope Technologies) Site visits=

I worked for Telescope Technologies (TTL) and LCOGT between 2003 and 2009 as a Commissioning Engineer and Systems Engineer. I had a great time working with many great people and miss it a lot! A small selection of my favourite images are below.

Other images of just some of the site visits to La Palma (Canaries, Liverpool Telescope), Hawaii (Maui, Faulkes Telescope North), Australia (Siding Spring Observatory, Faulkes Telescope South) and theYunnan Telescope in China are here:-


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Image below is of most of the TTL team at the Factory in Birkenhead in 2004 during the factory acceptance of the 2.4M Yunnan Telescope.



Me on the top of the scaffold with Bryan on the Nasmyth platform and Bob on the basebox,

Some selected reports of the site visits I have done for Telescope Technologies and Las Cumbres Observatory ([]) between 2003 and 2009:-




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 * [[image:Yunnan Kitt Peak 001.jpg]] || [[image:Yunnan_Telescope_China.JPG width="800" height="450"]] ||
 * [[image:Saturn_taken_by_FTN.jpg width="758" height="599"]] || [[image:TTL-1001- (2).jpg]] ||
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The above image was taken using a digital camera hand held at the eyepiece of the Faulkes North Telescope in 2005. Single image, no stacking. Above image is Faulkes Telescope North at night taken in 2005



The 'First light' image of M57 that myself and Stawberry took at FTN in 2003. This was an amazing night never to be forgotten!! The image was not great (guide camera image) but the experience was fantatsic!!


 * __Remote imaging from China__**

Report on the 20 inch F4 telescope. This was used for automated imaging while I was in Yunnan (China) on the 2.4M telescope.



Yunnan 2.4M telescope (China) acceptance images using SBIG ST1001 CCD on the 2.4M telescope taken in February 2008.

M97 Owl nebula



Core of M51 galaxy