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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?

Can anyone recommend a good cheap remote online telescope? im fed up of using slooh.com unless im not using it correctly and i dnt know what im doing.

Hi is it a good idea to use online telescopes such as slooh.com or itelescopes, what are the advantages? Are online telescopes used just to capture images as appose to viewing things live? On slooh.com you can set the telescope to take an image for you and adds it to your gallery. I'M not sure about using slooh.com because i don't know how to plan what to look at, even though slooh tells you whats visible. I can't look at objects live i dont think. Ash

Hi i can't go outside at night to stargaze as the cold weather makes my disability worse and we hardly ever have clear skies where i live.. I'd still like to see what's going on in the sky at night, can you suggest a youtube channel that streams live events, meteor showers, lunar phases, planets? I live in the UK. Thanks. Ash 🙂

Hi im a member of the slooh website and they have various quests members complete where you learn about things. im doing a quest about nebulae and im struggling. What does this mean please? What Are Emission Nebulae? Emission Nebulae are huge clouds of ionized gas that emit their own light. It does this in the same way that a neon sign glows. The nebula's gas cloud is energized by hot, young stars emitting high-energy ultraviolet light that is invisible to your eyes. You'll read about this phenomenon when you learn about Planetary Nebulae in a later step. They also glow because their gas clouds are excited, but in their case, by the energy from their central white dwarf star in the last stages of its life. I can understand this brief explanation better, Introduction Emission nebulae can range from 100 to 10,000 solar masses and can span 1 to 100 light-years in size. More specifically, an emission nebula is a cloud of hydrogen gas that is excited, or ionized. Hot nearby stars (>25,000K so O or B type stars) produce high energy ultraviolet radiation. Heres an image

im interested in galaxyzoo, however i've never used it, is it good? i looked at space telescopelive, it showed recent images but no information.

=I've never understood galaxyzoo, i thought it was no more. i was looking at Backyard worlds, planet 9, which looked interesting but i don't know what to do?

No i don't think it was read out on Awesome astronomy, that's news to me.

No i have no setup. it's always cloudy here and there are street lights. My bedroom window faces south but there are houses all around, i live in a cul de sac. I don't know what the solution would be to my stargazing problem. Like i said i want to do it online but i don't know what site to use. I like reading about the solar system and i was reading the book Planets yesterday and he mentions that Mercury has an elliptical orbit so on one side of the sun it can be very hot but at the other end of its orbit can be very cold. Brian cox also mentioned that mercury has a spin orbital resinance, does that mean that mercury spins 3 times for every orbit? im not sure. Brian cox also said that venus and mars once had seas and were earth like, but that was when the sun wasn't as hot as it is now . Something like that. Ash

Ok, im disabled and use a wheelchair, i can't go outside at night to stargaze because the cold weather makes my disability worse, so i want to do astronomy indoors on the computer. I got in touch with an astronomy club who put me in touch with someone at a site called Go stargazing. Here is a copy of his e mail to me, Hi Ash, Neill Sanders, from Go Stargazing, asked me to get in touch with you. I run online stargazing courses, and have some spare slots (valid 3 months) for some remote telescopes. Would you like me to set you up? There's no charge. Regards, Gary The site he's given me access to is slooh.com which is an observatory on top of a mountain in the canary islands, you tell the telescope what images you want it to take and it sends the image to a photo hub on your slooh dashboard which is the slooh homepage. There is also a solar telescope you can access on slooh which looks at the sun allday in H alpha and other wavelengths.