Want to take nice pictures of the stars but live in a city with lots of light pollution? Wish you could afford a telescope big enough to actually see something?  Worried that if you buy a telescope it will be way too complicated to actually use and expect it will gather dust in the shed?

If you answered YES to any of these then using the internet to look through a telescope might be the thing for you.  There are 2 options I’ve found. http://SLOOH.com   and http://www.northerngalactic.com/gtvol2main.html. I was hoping to review both, but every time I try northerngalactic the services is not running.  So that leaves SLOOH.com.

I’ve been keeping an eye on SLOOH over the last month, taking some pictures, trying out their Gallery features etc. At first I wasn’t so sure about the whole thing, it seemed almost too easy to take pictures and see lots of stars and planets and nebulae. But the more I’ve tried it, there more I get it. It should be easy! Take a look at these images which I acquired via the online SLOOH  telescope in Canary Islands.

Andromeda Galaxy - taken via Slooh.com

Jupiter - taken via Slooh.com

Neptune - taken via Slooh.com