martes, febrero 26, 2008

Miren que bien.
Four Online Telescopes Serve the Stars to Interstellar Paparazzi

playing astronomer for a night.

Bradford Robotic Telescope
www.Telescope.org
Telescope 14-inch-diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain
Location Tenerife, Canary Islands
Field of view From the north celestial pole to 52 degrees south
Pictures back in Days, sometimes weeks
Results 1,056 x 1,027-pixel color or black-and-white JPEGs
Cost Free

Micro-Observatory
mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory
Telescope 6-inch-diameter Maksutov
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Amado, Arizona
Field of view Northern celestial hemisphere to 48 degrees south
Pictures back in Days, often overnight
Results 650 x 500-pixel black-and-white GIFs
Cost Free

Seeing in the Dark
www.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/explore-the-sky
Telescope 14-inch-diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain
Location Mayhill, New Mexico
Field of view Northern celestial hemisphere to about 45 degrees south
Pictures back in Days to weeks
Results 512 x 512-pixel black-and-white JPEGs
Cost Free

Slooh
www.slooh.com
Telescope Two 14-inch-diameter Schmidt-Cassegrains — one for planets, the other for deep space
Location Tenerife, Canary Islands, and Santiago, Chile
Field of view Northern and southern celestial hemispheres
Pictures back in SecondsResults 800 x 600-pixel color JPEGs
Cost $100 per year for unlimited images

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