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Richard Seeker 
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By Patrick di Justo Urban astro-nerds, rejoice! The smog and lights of the city will obscure your view of the heavens no more. And your star photography will twinkle. Now you can go online to access high-quality scopes at dark-sky sites worldwide and order them to take photos for you — cheaply or for free, and at decent resolution. It may take some preparation, but even if the results aren't exactly Hubble-icious, there's something out-of-this-world about playing astronomer for a night. Bradford Robotic Telescope http://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-http://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 http://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 Slooh http://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 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/st_telescopes
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