A new iPad app allows anyone around the world to take telescope photos of celestial objects from the comfort of a couch.
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.
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.
“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.”
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