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tbagman | 7 months ago

I can also recommend starfront observatories (https://starfront.space) for folks looking to do remote hosting. It's in a remote location in Texas with solid skies and great staff, and has a pretty unique model of high density hosting to drive down cost, seeing a ton of deep sky astrophotographers come.

From time to time there are fun collaborative projects too, like https://app.astrobin.com/u/bagman?i=ey9s59#gallery.

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therein|7 months ago

Telescope datacenter, what a cool concept.

exe34|7 months ago

Farm might be a better word. Like render farm.

s0rce|7 months ago

Is this for hobbyists or industrial use?

tbagman|7 months ago

It's primarily for hobbyists. From the community discord, I know there are also serious rigs out there as well, on which some members are doing some astronomical science...

dmead|7 months ago

Obligatory comment that bray fals has been caught making up data ie, using Photoshop to paint detail in fals-1, the supposed new discovery that was actually already in some survey data.

Fun fact, Bray was the second jtw trident user in North America. I think I was the first.

Also, bit weird you can't come set up your own telescope.

tbagman|7 months ago

Evidence?