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by aragilar 314 days ago
If you've got some cheap dob with no tracking it makes sense to do it in your backyard (where the point is to look through eyepiece, not take photos), but $20 per night for everything but the actual scope at a high quality site is pretty good deal. I would expect given the other outlays to get a scope plus camera worth this site to be pretty large (e.g. at least 50k), so this is going to be a club or a school level thing, not an individual.

For comparison, pre-covid (so the cost has likely gone up quite a bit now) it was $200 a night for a 2m-class telescope and $1200 a night for a 4m-class telescope at a similar-ish site.