Get Inspiration from the Telescope Live Gallery
I like to look at the Telescope Live gallery nearly every day to see what others are working on, and sometimes seeing what others have posted inspires me to take a crack at what they posted. For instance, a recent Telescope Live Image of the Day was the Rho Ophiuchi region that was taken with the old CHI-5-CCD setup before it was retired.
You can still download the existing data, but as with any of the retired scopes you can't make new requests on them. Part of that is due to the change in technology that Telescope Live went to and how scheduling on some of the scopes was shared and couldn't always be booked easily, plus it was so easy to lose out if the weather was bad on some of them. I know I have done that with advanced requests when those were still active!
Still, it is very much worth going through some of the older stuff at times because while now we may have better technology with the type of camera used on the telescopes that are active on Telescope Live, that doesn't mean that some of the older data is no good. There is definitely data in there that is good enough to have gotten me the AAPOD before and the IOTD on Astrobin as well. Plus it is all easy enough to get a bunch of observatiosn over different times with some of it, and you can even combine more than one of the older telescopes and some of the new stuff as well!
Back to being inspired by some of the gallery images using older data that I already had and may not have used yet, the Rho Ophiuchi one with CHI-5-CCD was one of those. I combined all of the IC 4592 Panel 1 data and the IC 4605 data, using only the RGB components of it, and it looks amazing. I even went ahead and posted it in the gallery at Telescope Live, and hopefully it may inspire someone else to grab that data and then post their version in the gallery as well!
Go ahead and browse the gallery and if you see something you like give it a try. If you see something in the Telescope Live One Click Observations you may think people have missed why not give that a try and then post it in the gallery here too. https://telescope.live/gallery
