Robotic Telescopes
The following list gives links to a selection of robotic telescopes. Schools and other educational institutions may be interested in the Faulkes (free) and The Liverpool Telescope. As of January 2013 the Bradford Robotic Telescope has a flat £3 a month fee. Other telescopes for general public use are charged by either imaging time or telescope time which includes slewing, imaging and download time.
- Faulkes Telescopes ~ http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/
- Bradford Robotic Telescope ~ http://www.telescope.org/
- The Liverpool Telescope ~ http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/
- Sierra Stars Observatory Network ~ http://sierrastars.com/
- iTelescopes ~ http://www.itelescope.net/
- Slooh ~ http://events.slooh.com/
- Lightbucket ~ www.lightbuckets.com/
- Mytelescope ~ http://mytelescope.com/
- Skylive ~ www.skylive.it/
- Skynet ~ http://skynet.unc.edu/
Software
Many robotic telescope sites provide software suitable for image processing. The following sites provide free or low coast software that may prove useful:-
- Fits Liberator ~ http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/
- Process FITS images with ESA/NASA software (free)
- Process FITS images with ESA/NASA software (free)
- GIMP ~ www.gimp.org
- Manipulate colour images (free)
- Manipulate colour images (free)
- PhotoShop Elements ~ http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop-elements.html
- Manipulate colour images (charged)
- Manipulate colour images (charged)
- Registax ~ http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
- Image stacking software particularly good for planets and Moon
- Image stacking software particularly good for planets and Moon
- Deep Sky Stacker ~ http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
- Image stacking software aimed at deep sky objects
- Image stacking software aimed at deep sky objects
- Stellarium ~ http://stellarium.org/
- A good free planetarium programme
- A good free planetarium programme
- Object Visibility ~ http://catserver.ing.iac.es/staralt/
- From the Isaac Newton Telescopes, software to plan your observing
- From the Isaac Newton Telescopes, software to plan your observing
- Astrometrica ~ http://www.astrometrica.at/
- Low cost astrometry and photometry software
- Low cost astrometry and photometry software
- Minima ~ http://members.shaw.ca/bob.nelson/software1.htm
- This site contains a lot of specialist software for binary stars etc. Minima is particularly useful.
- This site contains a lot of specialist software for binary stars etc. Minima is particularly useful.