Remote telescopes offer international stargazers a view of Australia’s night sky

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More stargazers around the world are enjoying Australia’s night sky thanks to a growing number of observatories in regional Australia.

Known as ‘telescope farms’, the observatories are scattered across the country in secret locations.

Stargazers access the observatories through the internet, using a program to control remote telescopes thousands of kilometres away.

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> secret locations

That’s surprising.

I only know of dark sites like this one.

And amateur telescopes like this one.

Ah, set up at Siding Springs.

What would you photograph that hasn’t already been photographed by better telescopes a hundred times before?

mollwollfumble said:

Ah, set up at Siding Springs.

What would you photograph that hasn’t already been photographed by better telescopes a hundred times before?

Let’s see.

• Familiar objects at unfamiliar wavelengths.
• Variable objects, such as variable stars, comets, tumbling asteroids.
• Variable objects too close to the Sun for normal viewing.
• Wide field objects, nebulas.
• What Michael V found, supernova.
• Zodiacal light.

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Ah, set up at Siding Springs.

What would you photograph that hasn’t already been photographed by better telescopes a hundred times before?

Let’s see.

• Familiar objects at unfamiliar wavelengths.
• Variable objects, such as variable stars, comets, tumbling asteroids.
• Variable objects too close to the Sun for normal viewing.
• Wide field objects, nebulas.
• What Michael V found, supernova.
• Zodiacal light.
  

Search for atira class asteroids? Look at sunrise and sunset.

Atira-class asteroids have aphelia greater than 0.718 au and smaller than 0.983 au; as of 29-May-2018, there are only 18 known Atiras because, like Venus, they can only be properly observed near their greatest elongation

mollwollfumble said:

Ah, set up at Siding Springs.

What would you photograph that hasn’t already been photographed by better telescopes a hundred times before?

I always seem to come back in my mind the taking observations of bright variable objects when viewing conditions are poor. By that I mean close to the Sun, the Moon, the planets, I don’t mean when it’s cloudy. Then use massive multilayering to reject the background light.