Slooh Makes Looking into Outer Space Free

Slooh, a global telescope network and web-based astronomy education and outreach hub, has made its live telescope feeds freely available worldwide in furtherance of its mission to benefit the astronomy community. Professional, amateur, and citizen scientists can use the live feeds in research areas such as monitoring solar winds, supernovae detection, and asteroid tracking. Educators in both K-12 and college level astronomy courses can use the live feeds as supplementary tools inside and outside of the classroom and have access to portions of the Slooh online community dedicated to facilitating easy classroom integration.

Slooh’s automated observatories develop celestial image streams in real-time and free Slooh members have access to all live telescope feeds and the ability to capture a limited amount of photos, with the potential to obtain more photos and FITS files from upgraded memberships. Slooh’s global telescope network is comprised of 10 telescopes equipped with CCD cameras and research quality filters with seven telescopes situated at its flagship observatory in the northern hemisphere at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, including their largest half-meter telescope and a solar telescope, and three telescopes situated in the southern hemisphere at the Catholic University based in Santiago, Chile.