Robotic Telescopes

These sites offer the advantage of being able to use high cost equipment from very dark sky sites.  From beginner up to expert level.  Except for the Bradford site, most do charge by the hour, but its the real deal and knowing you are downloading images from high end CCD cameras and scopes, and most importantly, you are in control of that telescope.  Enjoy!

*  Bradford Robotic Telescope.  Free!  Great for the beginner, and fun to dabble with for the expert.  I have gotten some great images with this robotic scope.  Highly recommended, especially when there is bad weather and you have aperture fever.  Pretty common these days.

*  SLOOH Space Camera.  This is a great transition site from Bradford.  The cost is very reasonable $50/year. (4) >10inch, (4) wide-field scopes. North and South Hemisphere sites.  No direct control, no advanced mode, BMP/PNG data formats (No FITS).

*  LightBuckets.  This is a great transition from SLOOH.  The cost is $35/hour. (4) >10 inch, (1) wide-field scopes. North and South Hemisphere sites.    No direct control, + Advanced mode. Can schedule for later if bad weather. Narrowband. V-Filter. Exclusive ownership of data. JPEG, FITS, +FITS Calibration data formats.

*  Global Rent-A-Scope, GRAS.  This is a great transition from Lightbuckets.  The cost is $37/hour.  (8) >10 inch, (5) wide-field scopes.  North and South hemisphere sites. Direct control, + Advanced mode.  Can schedule for later if bad weather.  Narrowband.  UVBIR-FIlters.  Exclusive ownership of data. FITS, + FITS Calibration data formats.

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