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  2. Slooh - Wikipedia

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    Slooh is an online astronomy platform with live-views and telescope rental for a fee. [4] Observations come from a global network of telescopes located in places including Spain and Chile. [4] The name Slooh comes from the word "slew" to indicate the movement of a telescope, modified with "ooh" to express pleasure and surprise.

  3. Rare lunar occultation of Saturn captured in splendid ... - AOL

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  4. Robotic telescope - Wikipedia

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    "El Enano", a robotic telescope. A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human.In astronomical disciplines, a telescope qualifies as robotic if it makes those observations without being operated by a human, even if a human has to initiate the observations at the beginning of the night or end them in the morning.

  5. Teide Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Teide Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio del Teide), IAU code 954, is an astronomical observatory on Mount Teide at 2,390 metres (7,840 ft), located on Tenerife, Spain.It has been operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias since its inauguration in 1964.

  6. Review: 'Descendant' powerfully telescopes past and present - AOL

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    One of the best films of the year, Margaret Brown's “Descendant” is, strictly speaking, about the discovery of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship. After it was used to illegally kidnap ...

  7. Las Cumbres Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) is a network of astronomical observatories run by a non-profit private operating foundation directed by the technologist Wayne Rosing. Its offices are in Goleta, California. The telescopes are located at both northern and southern hemisphere sites distributed in longitude around the Earth.

  8. International Scientific Optical Network - Wikipedia

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    The International Scientific Optical Network or ISON (Russian: Международная научная оптическая сеть, Пулковская кооперация оптических наблюдателей) is an international project, currently consisting of about 30 telescopes at about 20 observatories in about ten countries (Russia, Ukraine (Andrushivka), Georgia ...

  9. National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The 300-foot telescope after collapsing on November 15th, 1988. Until its collapse on November 15, 1988, a 300 ft radio telescope [7] stood at the Green Bank Observatory's unique site. It was the largest radio telescope on Earth when it was brought online for its first observation at 12:42 am on September 21, 1962.