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Thursday February 9th 2012

How to “Rent” a Telescope for online observation

Recently I was wondering how to see deeper into the night sky than was possible using my own Telescope. I had heard that it was possible to “rent” time on a Telescope so I decided to look into it and see what I could find.  Ignoring some of the static webcams out there I was looking for something that would help me see something interesting and allow me to record those images.

What I found was SLOOH a website that I’ve signed up to for a months trial to view the sky from one of thier 3 Telescopes around the world.  Chile, Australia and the Canary Islands. They do “tours” which you can view online and take pictures along the way.  First Mission for me is tonight 8:40 when I’m off to see Jupiter…. I’ll keep you posted.

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