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 cost software that may prove useful:-

• Fits Liberator ~ http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/
  • Process FITS images with ESA/NASA software (free)
    
• GIMP ~ www.gimp.org
  
  • Manipulate colour images (free)
    
• PhotoShop Elements ~ http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop-elements.html
  
  • Manipulate colour images (charged)
    
• Registax ~ http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
  
  • 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
    
• Stellarium ~ http://stellarium.org/
  
  • A good free planetarium programme
    
• Object Visibility ~ http://catserver.ing.iac.es/staralt/
  
  • From the Isaac Newton Telescopes, software to plan your observing
    
• Astrometrica ~ http://www.astrometrica.at/
  
  • 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.