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Free online telescopes
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
Not Free online telescope
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 Seconds
Results 800 x 600-pixel color
JPEGs
Cost $100 per year for
unlimited images
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