Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Snap Your Own Telescope Photos on New iPad App

<p>A new iPad app allows anyone around the world to take telescope photos of celestial objects from the comfort of a couch.</p><p>The online Slooh Space Camera an organization that hosts live views and webcasts of cosmic sights from a network of international telescopes has created an app that allows users to command and control their robotic network of space cameras.</p><p>Space fans that download the app can "command a mission" to any object they find on a sky chart. Slooh's professional telescopes will take a photo of the cosmic sight, providing the user with a time, date and observatory-stamped image that will be loaded into the digital skywatcher's personal app.</p><p>"Much of the fun will be in 'filling out' your own sky to build your collection, in the app," Slooh president Patrick Paolucci said in a statement. "It starts out blank until you command a Slooh Space Camera. It's truly your own image, not a photo taken months or years earlier by some unknown facility or astro geek."</p><p><a href="http://www.space.com/21533-ipad-app-slooh-space-camera.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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