Some online telescopes (free)

[george7378]

Hi everyone,

I have recently been using online telescopes to take some astrophotos of things like galaxies and nebulae - it's easy to do. I have managed to find two completely free ones so far:

http://www.telescope.org/

http://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/index.html

Here are some of my snaps with them:

http://georgek.heliohost.org/photosobs.html

 

[bwog]

I don't get what you mean by "online telescope". I looked on both sites and I only found pictures :huh:

 

[garyw]

I just submitted a job to the one at telescope.org, fairly easy process but you have to create an account.

Nice find george7378.

 

[Xyon]

I submitted jobs to both of those, be interesting to compare notes.

 

[RisingFury]

I don't get what you mean by "online telescope". I looked on both sites and I only found pictures :huh:

A robotic telescope, guided by a computer with internet access. You submit a job to the computer and it executes it.


Very nice find! Will definitelly create an account!

 

[Bloodworth]

Excellent! I've been wondering where to find one of these. Thank you!

 

[RisingFury]

My uni has a robotic telescope for finding and tracking asteroids, but I doubt it's publically available. I'll try to find out.

 

[supersonic]

How about this one:
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

 

[george7378]

I have found that the www.telescope.org one is a bit slow - I submitted some jobs close to a week ago, and they haven't been executed yet. I think it is because they lost connection with it a couple of days ago, and although connection has now been restored, I can imagine that there is a very large queue of images! It seems to produce the better results though, and has a much larger range of objects to choose.

I've got some more results from the MicroObservatory telescopes though:

(Not processed) M51:

(Processed) Centaurus dwarf galaxy:

Thanks for the link to Worldwide Telescope supersonic! It looks a lot better than Google Sky.

 

[Xyon]

Those look lovely! I haven't had the one back from telescope.org myself either, but I did get a shot of Jupiter from the MicroObservatory.

I think I need to tweak my settings a bit >.>

 

[jinglesassy]

I have one from both telescope.org and microobservatory

the one with alot of stuff in it is from telescope.org to pluto the other one is mars from microobservatory

 

[Xyon]

I got this one back from the microobservatory today, a shot of the Milky Way:

Still not had any back from telescope.org yet.

 

[tblaxland]

:hmm: It just doesn't feel the same when you're not outside freezing your extremities off

 

[Ghostrider]

:hmm: It just doesn't feel the same when you're not outside freezing your extremities off

Take your laptop to the roof, place a bucket of iced water before a fan and sit downwind. Problem solved. :thumbup:

 

[Notebook]

I tried that, but I fell off.

N.

 

[garyw]

I got one of Saturn back from Microobservatory over the weekend. It was very similar to Xyon's shot of Jupiter.

Telescope.org haven't replied to me either.

 

[Hmuda]

Wow, didn't know this kind fo thing existed. Much appreciated.

 

[Xyon]

I just got one back from telescope.org! Shot of the moon I requested on the 5th of June... anyway, here it is;

 

[george7378]

Wow Xyon - that's great! Did you do any editing?

I got some back today (which I submitted on the 17th May). They have been sharpened and adjusted using Paint.NET and the Telescope.org Java tool:

M104:

M13:

M31:

 

[Xyon]

I did tweak it a little with the java tool, just poking about with brightness levels.