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  • I would never have thought of this, but it is really cool. Living in the city with light pollution, we can see a dozen or so on the best nights.

    What an ingenious business idea.

    by solomonneas
  • mostly unrelated, but over the last few weeks I've gone down a rabbit hole having claude write scripts to label videos I shoot through night vision.

    If you want to see my progress (mostly gated by the sky): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOgT48pM4GctL_nuv37vc...

    I want to get it pointing out overflights and satellites by name, but I'm not there yet.

    by RyJones
  • I have a small scope down there, and it's great! I get a lot more use out of it being permanently setup in a dark sky site, rather than use it at my suburban house.

    I'm currently doing observations of variable stars just for fun. Going to load up an observing plan for tonight shortly!

    by fleeno
  • We need more of this. Thanks for making the world more awesome!
    by jmward01
  • Previous discussions on remote telescopes:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271108

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44741078

    by password4321
  • Far from unique! There were and are telescope hosters in the Atacama Desert, which is as good as it can possibly be for the amateurs.
    by orbital-decay
  • > from as little as 99 USD a month

    > 550 telescopes

    So about ~55 to 60k USD a month to just have some telescopes on your land? Nice little earner.

    by mattlondon
  • Really great idea! But one still has to buy a telescope and send it to this guy, I think it would be cool if one could just rent everything at once. For non-serious people that have a lot of money that they would like to put to use looking at the stars. Or maybe a time-share like concept.
    by jimmy76615

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