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yes thankyou, nice book. Ash

Thanks for all your help and advice its giving me food for thought especially bout a all sky cam. I started to read Patrick moore books a few years ago which i learned alot from, but was told to stop because they are dated. Are they still ok to read please?

I opened stellarium this evening and saw that Anthelion is up, whats Anthelion?

so opening stellarium on my computer and looking arouned in real time is as good as using an online telescope yes?? Say i look on a website and theres an occultation, i could watch it in real time on stellarium yes?

Maybe i'll look at all sky camera later on but for now im thinking about using stellarium in my bedroom. Say for example one evening instead of going online and onto facebook, if i open stellarium on my computer could i stargaze like i was outside, how would i do this? what i mean is how do i know whats up or an event is happening, does stellarium tell me? But yes basically all i want to know is can i use stellarium as if i was looking at the sky outside but in my bedroom? I subscribed to slooh student membership for a year but the price has gone stupid now. Thanks Ash

I was thinking of using stellarium rather than using online telescope, would this be a better idea? Ash

Hi can someone help me to decide please? i received a reply from slooh online telescopes, here it is. Dear Ash, Thank you for writing back. Regarding your price inquiry, here is our pricing page so that you can evaluate each membership type to find the one that works best for you. About your image editing questions, you are not required to do any image editing. Regarding the benefits of using Slooh, we have telescopes across the world, many guides, and quests that, once you have a membership, you can use to set up missions to and learn more about celestial objects at your own pace. Kind regards, Alice Kennedy The cheapest plan is the home-schooling plan which is 39.95 dollars a month, im not sure what that is in pounds. I've messaged virtual telescope and asked them what their cheapest plan is.

Thanks for all your help. The free course with the OU where I can use their online telescope sounds good but I don't really want to do a course. As I said earlier I was a member of slooh online telescope and I got some nice images but Firstly I'm not an astronomy student which is what sloOh is all about I feel, and secondly its expensive to join. I found the microobservatory but on there you selecT and image and then they'll email that image the next day with what the telescope has taken. I would go for the smart telescope but uts always cloudy here.

Hi I'm Ash from the United Kingdom. I'm disabled and use a wheelchair. I like astronomy but I can't go outside at night because the sky is 98% cloudy, there's street lights where I live and its too cold it affects my disability. I have been looking Into how I can stargaze online, the easiest online telescope is slooh and there's no need for editing the images taken by the telescopes. These online telescopes are so expensive, is there a cheaper alternative to view the night sky live? I want to look at constellations aswel as planets. What do you think I should do? That isn't expensive?? Thanks

Hi my name is Ashley and I live in the United Kingdom. I am disabled and use a wheelchair. I like astronomy but I can't go outside to stargaze at night as the cold weather makes my disability worse. I want to enjoy astronomy from inside the house from my home computer. I have looked at a few online telescopes and I signed up to one of them but how do people enjoy astronomy from indoors at the computer? I saw on earthsky the moon and Jupiter is it, are in the sky but I cant see them. Is there a robotic telescope that let's me look at any object not just certain images selected by a telescope?? I looked at the website called MicroObservatory, they gave 2 robotic telescopes which are free to use, you just select a highlighted object and the telescope will capture that image and email it to you the next day. I don't know what to use for the best??

Hi I'm Ash I'm 46 from the UK. I'm disabled and use a wheelchair. I can't go outside at night to stargaze because the cold weather affects my disability. I signed up to an online telescope but I think I'd be better off using stellarium on my home computer. What I would like to know is can I stargaze using stellarium? Say I open the program at 7pm and I see the plough or big dipper is up, can I study the star names and star hopping from one conste to the other? Also do you suggest looking on Google for DSO's to search for on stellarium or what do you suggest? I don't know what to look for in the sky on stellarium. Thanks

yes ive been to North Wales Astronomy Society and felt daunted as they were discussing advanced nuclear physics, so i havent been back there since. Slooh.com has as student membership which is fifty dollars so around 40 pounds. Ash

would you pay to use slooh?

My membership to slooh has run out which was paid for 2 years by a guy from Liverpool astronomy club. I like to use slooh to get images from their telescopes. Is it worth it for me to pay £40.00 for a 12 month subscription? Their homepage which they call a dashboard is strange, theres no interaction with other members, they only way to interact with other members is by using discord. Also they have live star party streams which are like at 4 5 o clock in the morning here. So i dont know if its worth joining again. Like i said i only like the images. Ash

Heres a few more images taken by the slooh telescopes.

You either search an object that you want to image or you can choose a mission by going to what they call slooh 1,000 which is a drop down menu where you choose, planets, moon nebulae, stars galaxies and then in a different menu it tells you what is up and what you cant see. Say you pick Emission nebulae then in a different drop down menu it tells you what emission nebula the telescope can see that night. For example, i want to image the crab nebula but slooh 1,000 tells me M1 isn't visible at the moment. They have telescopes in Canaries and in chile. you can only choose 5 missions in a day for that night or in next few nights. If you search an object you can choose which telescope you want to use canaries or chile, also it tells you the weather forecast for a certain night. Ash

Hi guys, i was told the other day that if i use the slooh online telescope i don't need to process the images, so i have decided to use slooh telescopes to get images, all I've done with these is crop them a little. I cant get the hang of processing images using itelescope and others but if by using slooh means no processing the images then its win win., Ash

I have watched the itelescope tutorials and im not sure i understand them, they're over my head. Cant i ask a scope to take an image that doesn't need processing and then download it to my computer? People on the itelescope discord are sending me links, trying to help me but it all seems complicated. I want to enjoy astronomy and not get disheartened by it being difficult. I am disabled and use a wheelchair, i've suffered head injuries so that makes it difficult to understand things. i found this site, what doi you think? i looked at memberships and silver is free. https://www.roboscopes.com/

Hi I want to start using a remote telescope and then edit the images taken on my windows computer. I joined slooh.com and used their telescopes but the images taken aren't great. I heard about the website called itelescope.net, I saw the images taken by their telescopes and they look better than the ones taken by the slooh telescopes. My worry isit looks complicated to download images then unzip the files to edit then editing I need help with as I haven't edited before. Would anyone here be able to help me to get started in setting up itelescope and how to use it please? I've watched the guy on YouTube explaining how to use itelescope and how to edit but he talks quickly and doesn't explain properly. Ash

So if I sign up to telescope.live I'll have to edit the images? I've never edited, Ash

Hi guys do you know of an online telescope I can use which after its captured an image you don't have to edit? I was looking at telescope.live which looks good, it's 4 pound a month but you have to post edit the images. Or maybe editing them is easy I've never done it? Is there a similar site where you don't edit the images? Ash

Hi i've started using a remote telescope, its in the canaries somewhere. I hardly go on it as i never know what images i want to take. I do want to use it more often, how do i plan an evenings observing? i live in north wales in the uk and the remote telescope is on the island of Le Palma in the canaries.I can't say what can be seen there so how do i plan what i want to observe there? thanks. Ash

I suppose what im asking is, i dont know what different object to observe, should i use objects in my book to observe in the remote telescope?

I live in a cul de sac, we have street light and the skies are hardly clear. I cant go out at night because the cold weather affects my disability. That's why i asked about viewing though a remote telescope and whether i should look at things suggested in my book.,

Hi I'm Ash I've posted on here before but it was a while ago. I'm a wheelchair user from Wales in the UK I have started using a remote telescope to capture images. Is that what remote telescopes do just capture images? I have got the book Turn left at orion 100 things to look attheough a small telescope. Should I use whatever the book tells me to look at and use the online telescope to view it; such as messier and messier A on the moon?