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schriss
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Anybody tried that? Obviously it's not free, but rates seem quite affordable. I just bought $4 membership just to look around.
So we can spy on those comet clusters now :>
www.SLOOH.com - Remote controlled observatory
"SLOOH's observatories high upon Mount Teide in the Canary Islands are far more powerful than a backyard telescope, and SLOOH members can access them from anywhere in the world. Each observatory is enclosed in a motorized dome and has a motorized equatorial mount. On each mount is a catadioptric telescope, which has a focuser, a filter wheel and a CCD camera. Next to the catadioptric is a refractor telescope with a focuser, a filter wheel and a CCD camera, which we use for wide field imaging. Several computers housed within the domes control the equipment and maintain a telecommunications connection to our web site. Outside the domes is another CCD camera with an all-sky lens.
SLOOH has five telescopes in service right now:
A 14-inch diameter Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope, with a 3910mm focal length
An 85mm diameter APO refractor telescope, with a 480mm focal length
A second 14-inch SCT, with a 2100mm focal length
A 34mm diameter refractor, with a 135mm focal length
A monochrome all-sky camera with a fisheye field of view of 175 degrees
Our CCD cameras have up to 3 megapixels."
"One thing SLOOH has going for it, observers say, is the fact that people can see things in real time, watching as the telescope accumulates photons and builds an image over the course of five minutes or so."
"Command Reservations enable you to control SLOOH's robotic observatory, thousands of miles away. Each night, SLOOH assigns one of its two domes to the Editor Channel. Our Editor schedules a series of missions from dusk to dawn on that dome/channel. The other dome is available for Command Missions on the Member Channel. SLOOH members schedule Command Missions using the Command Reservations tab on the Launch Pad. You reserve each Command Mission in advance by selecting an available time slot. Then you select the target (an astronomical object) to be observed during that mission. Each Command Mission is five minutes long. Later -- two minutes before each mission is scheduled to begin -- a command is automatically sent to the observatory to observe the target which you selected. The only human involved in the process is you."
So we can spy on those comet clusters now :>
www.SLOOH.com - Remote controlled observatory
"SLOOH's observatories high upon Mount Teide in the Canary Islands are far more powerful than a backyard telescope, and SLOOH members can access them from anywhere in the world. Each observatory is enclosed in a motorized dome and has a motorized equatorial mount. On each mount is a catadioptric telescope, which has a focuser, a filter wheel and a CCD camera. Next to the catadioptric is a refractor telescope with a focuser, a filter wheel and a CCD camera, which we use for wide field imaging. Several computers housed within the domes control the equipment and maintain a telecommunications connection to our web site. Outside the domes is another CCD camera with an all-sky lens.
SLOOH has five telescopes in service right now:
A 14-inch diameter Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope, with a 3910mm focal length
An 85mm diameter APO refractor telescope, with a 480mm focal length
A second 14-inch SCT, with a 2100mm focal length
A 34mm diameter refractor, with a 135mm focal length
A monochrome all-sky camera with a fisheye field of view of 175 degrees
Our CCD cameras have up to 3 megapixels."
"One thing SLOOH has going for it, observers say, is the fact that people can see things in real time, watching as the telescope accumulates photons and builds an image over the course of five minutes or so."
"Command Reservations enable you to control SLOOH's robotic observatory, thousands of miles away. Each night, SLOOH assigns one of its two domes to the Editor Channel. Our Editor schedules a series of missions from dusk to dawn on that dome/channel. The other dome is available for Command Missions on the Member Channel. SLOOH members schedule Command Missions using the Command Reservations tab on the Launch Pad. You reserve each Command Mission in advance by selecting an available time slot. Then you select the target (an astronomical object) to be observed during that mission. Each Command Mission is five minutes long. Later -- two minutes before each mission is scheduled to begin -- a command is automatically sent to the observatory to observe the target which you selected. The only human involved in the process is you."
