Price
The currency used on CHILESCOPE is points, one point typical is $1 USD. Points are consumed based on the amount of imaging time you use on a telescope, each telescope has the points per frame (exposure) rate, which is displayed in real time when you login to the Scheduling System.
Please read this document for better understanding of CHILESCOPE pricing policy and calculation of session duration
For Telescope 2, Telescope 3, Telescope 5
Total Plan Time = Total Exposure Time + (N-1) X S +( Total Exposure Time + (N-1) X S) / Int X 8
Total Exposure Time - Sum of all exposures in plan in minutes
N - number of frames in plan
Int - Interval of periodic autofocus (30 or 60 min)
S = 4 if dithering is used
S = 2 if dithering is not used
When booking the session, the system automatically adds 60% of observing time to the plan. This is technical time.
For Telescope 1
Total Plan Time = Total Exposure Time + (N-1) X S + (Total Exposure Time + (N-1) X S) / Int X 10
Total Exposure Time - Sum of all exposures in plan in minutes
N - number of frames in plan
Int - Interval of periodic autofocus (30 or 60 min)
S = 5 if dithering is used
S = 2 if dithering is not used
When booking the session, the system automatically adds 80% of observing time to the plan. This is technical time.
For Telescope 4
The system automatically adds 50% of observing time to the plan. This is technical time.
In most cases this time is enough to finish the session since there is no guiding and dithering is much faster on VST
TELESCOPE PRICES (USD/hour)
Telescope | Points |
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Telescope 1 | 150 |
Telescope 2 | 60 |
Telescope 3 | 60 |
Telescope 4 | 40 |
Telescope 5 | 50 |
Telescope 6 | 30 |
Telescope 7 | 40 |