--- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'd have to disagree that robotic scopes are "the future" of public outreach. . . . Making more sense from an outreach standpoint, as well as light-pollution considerations, is a mobile observatory.
I see your point. Here's what the British are doing with considerable public and charitable funding: The Faulkes-Telescope Project http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/ Offered by the Faulkes Telescope Operations Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, England, for robotically operated 2 meter telescopes in Hawaii. Billed as the "world's largest publically available robotic telescope." The interface and general website construction of Faulkes is the most advanced and user friendly that I have seen. http://kilo.ifa.hawaii.edu/faulkes/intro.jsp The Faulkes Telescope is one in a series of duplicate UK facilities around the world. http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/RoboNet/ - C __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com