Automatic Telescopes on the Internet

There are a number of automatic telescopes which have WWW sites; some may allow anyone to request images.

• The Berkeley Automatic Imaging Telescopes are run by astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley. There is one telescope at Lick Observatory, and two at Leuschner Observatory.
• The University of Iowa Automated Telescope Facility, run by Robert Mutel and his students. Anyone may request images from this telescope.
• The Bradford Robotic Telescope, which has been operating on the Web since November, 1993. It's located in England, where the weather isn't optimal, but it accepts requests from anyone.
• Stardial is a stationary weather-proof electronic camera for recording images of the sky at night autonomously. Stardial is intended for education, primarily, but it may be of interest to astronomers, amateur or professional, also. It is located on the roof of the astronomy building on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• The Nassau Station of Case Western Reserve University's Astronomy Department contains a 0.9-meter telescope with WWW access to the public. One must register with them to use the telescope.
• The Remote Access Astronomy Project, at University of California, Santa Barbara. High-school students may request images over the 'Net.
• Telescopes in Education Program offers the telescopes at Mt. Wilson, California, for educational purposes. For a fee, students can operate a telescope with CCD camera remotely.
• Baton Rouge Observatory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This telescope may be operational in summer 1997.
• Eyes on the Skies, a small refractor which is controlled from a bulletin-board service. It is used to look at the sun.
• NF/Observatory is located in the Nevada Desert, and communicates with the Internet via a digital radio link.
• The Perugia University Astronomical Observatory in Italy has an Automatic Imaging Telescope system with a main telescope (a 40cm newtonian with CCD camera) and a guiding telescope (a 15cm refractor with small CCD mounted on X-Y stage). A robotic infrared telescope is in the works.

This page maintained by Michael Richmond, mwrsps@grace.rit.edu
Last modified Dec 2, 1998.