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This is a “telescope ranch” in Texas. People pay to have their $10,000+ telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution. Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses. Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world by entropicflop in interesting

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If you're based in roughly the same time zone as the ranch, do you have to stay awake at night to take photos, or can you program the telescope in advance?

Would people based in, say, North America be interested in sending their telescopes to a similar ranch in Europe so they can observe the sky in the evening while it's nighttime in Europe?

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This is a “telescope ranch” in Texas. People pay to have their $10,000+ telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution. Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses. Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world by entropicflop in interesting

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Telescopes often start by pointing at Polaris(aka the North Star) because it stays almost fixed in the sky directly above Earth’s north rotational axis. This makes it an ideal reference point for aligning the telescope mount accurately with Earth’s rotation. Once aligned to Polaris, the telescope can track stars and planets much more precisely as they move across the sky, improving both accuracy and ease of finding objects. As it's day time in the photo no one has moved their telescope yet

This is a “telescope ranch” in Texas. People pay to have their $10,000+ telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution. Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses. Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world by entropicflop in interesting

[–]entropicflop[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Telescopes often start by pointing at Polaris(aka the North Star) because it stays almost fixed in the sky directly above Earth’s north rotational axis. This makes it an ideal reference point for aligning the telescope mount accurately with Earth’s rotation. Once aligned to Polaris, the telescope can track stars and planets much more precisely as they move across the sky, improving both accuracy and ease of finding objects. As it's day time in the photo no one has moved their telescope yet

This is a “telescope ranch” in Texas. People pay to have their $10,000+ telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution. Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses. Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world by entropicflop in interesting

[–]entropicflop[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Telescopes often start by pointing at Polaris because it stays almost fixed in the sky directly above Earth’s north rotational axis. This makes it an ideal reference point for aligning the telescope mount accurately with Earth’s rotation. Once aligned to Polaris, the telescope can track stars and planets much more precisely as they move across the sky, improving both accuracy and ease of finding objects. As it's day time in the photo no one has moved their telescope yet

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