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| The Observer's Observatory... |
 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:22 am |
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Mark Fuks question brought up an interesting question I have wondered about
for some time: free observatories for amateur use. Do they exist and can
they be accessed through the WWW?
thank you
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| Pierre Vandevenne... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:22 am |
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On Nov 2, 3:22 pm, "The Observer's Observatory" <t... at (no spam) oru.edu> wrote:
[quote]Mark Fuks question brought up an interesting question I have wondered about
for some time: free observatories for amateur use. Do they exist and can
they be accessed through the WWW?
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There was the 100 hours of remote astronomy project. They offered free
time or free trials on participating remote observatories for a while.
Some users of other newsgroup I read scheduled shots on the 1m
skinakas telescope and got them.
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| Dan Birchall... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:00 am |
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toob at (no spam) oru.edu (The Observer's Observatory) wrote:
[quote]Mark Fuks question brought up an interesting question I have
wondered about for some time: free observatories for amateur use.
Do they exist and can they be accessed through the WWW?
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Observatories cost money to run, and that money has to come from
somewhere. In the case of some Internet-controlled scopes (Slooh,
LightBuckets) it comes from the observers. In other cases (Faulkes,
Liverpool) it comes from benefactors - but usually the trade-off
is that the userbase is limited. (For example, Faulkes and Liverpool
are largely for K-12 use.)
I think JAXA's I-CAN cameras can pretty much be controlled by anyone
over the web, but their FOV isn't really telescopic; they're mostly
just good for looking at constellations.
-Dan
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