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| Bradford Robotic Telescope | 4.22.2008 13:54 |
| The Bradford Robotic Telescope (BRT) is a free online, public service where you can command their 365mm aperture Schmidt-Cassegrain (or either of two other digital cameras with and without a zooming lens) to point at and digitally photograph whatever you want that is viewable at its latitude (28o 17' 54" N). The possible inputs are: filter type, exposure duration, camera selection, and of course the target (either a named object like NGC 6809 or RA/Dec). After inputting a job request, it can takes weeks for your job to be selected and processed however. My first job request has just completed early this morning, after being entered 34 days prior. Here is an optimized photo of my first completed job: | |
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© Bradford Robotic Telescope 2008, used with permissionThis is the Messier 61 object, a beautiful spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation. The image was taken with a filter that only lets red light in (although it is shown here in grayscale), with an exposure duration of 3 minutes (the maximum allowed), on the 'Galaxy' telescope of course. If your monitor brightness is turned up, you can see large faint arms extending to the top and bottom of the image (I have my brightness down except when looking at dark images such as these to keep from going blind). For members of BRT, the job id is 57471. | |
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