Remote telescope network

Rent time on real telescopes.

Remote observatories at dark-sky sites, bookable by the hour. Image the Moon, the Sun, the planets and deep space from home, without buying or hauling your own gear.

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NGC 3324 · Carina Nebula · NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Live Checking the sky…
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Dark-sky sitesTelescopes away from city light
Your dataFull-resolution FITS and previews
Solar-safeSun bookings only with proper filters
The network, live

It's always night somewhere.

Telescopes in both hemispheres mean a dark sky is almost always ready. This map follows the real day and night across the Earth, right now.

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Subjects

Start with what you want to image.

Each telescope is listed for what it does best. Pick a subject to see the instruments suited to it.

The full Moon
Lunar

The Moon

Craters, maria and the terminator →
 The Sun seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
Solar

The Sun

Sunspots and H-alpha prominences →
 Saturn and its rings, imaged by Cassini
Planetary

Planets

Jupiter's bands, Saturn's rings →
 The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula
Deep sky

Deep space

Nebulae, galaxies and clusters →
How it works

Four steps from booking to data.

01

Choose a telescope

Filter by subject, aperture, camera and site. Every listing shows exactly what you're booking.

02

Reserve your hours

Pick a date and time slot. The calendar only shows times that are genuinely free.

03

Plan your capture

Choose your target and settings. The host's observatory runs it safely under their own limits.

04

Download your data

Receive full-resolution files and previews, ready for your own processing.

On the network

Featured telescopes

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For observatories, clubs and schools

Have a telescope? Share it.

List your instrument for the hours you aren't using it. You set the price, the schedule and the safety rules. We handle bookings, payments and support.

Become a host
Beyond astrophotography

For classrooms and real science.

Education

Real telescopes for real classrooms

Students plan an observation, a dark-sky telescope captures it, and the class works with real data the next morning. Ontario curriculum links and educator rates.

For teachers → Citizen science

Contribute to real research

Time an exoplanet crossing its star for NASA's Exoplanet Watch, or monitor variable stars for the AAVSO, using telescopes in both hemispheres.

Find a project →