Slooh - Sdh Multiplexer Manufacturer - Multiservice Multiplexer
www.slooh.com/
www.slooh.com/
Slogan
Your Live Online Observatory
Commercial?
Yes
Type of site
Service provider
Registration
Optional
Owner
Michael Paolucci (Founder)
Launched
June 26, 2003
Alexa rank
262,998
Current status
Active
Slooh is a robotic telescope service that can be viewed live through a web browser with Flash plug-in. It was not the first robotic telescope, but it was the first that offered "live" viewing through a telescope via the web.[citation needed] Other online telescopes traditionally email a picture to the recipient. The site has a patent on their live image processing method.
The name Slooh comes from the word "slew" to indicate a movement of a telescope, modified to "ooh" to express pleasure and surprise.
Contents
1 History
2 Participating observatories
3 References
4 External links
5 See also
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History
The service was founded in March 2003 by Matt Bendaniel and Michael Paolucci. As of October 2009, Paolucci remains as Chairman. The service went online December 25, 2003 but was not available to the public until 2004. On March 18, 2006, the service was upgraded to incorporate additional features.[clarification needed]
Participating observatories
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The original astronomical observatory is located on the island Tenerife in the Canary Islands on the volcano called Teide. The site is at 3.5km elevation and situated away from city light pollution. This (Canary Islands) site includes 2 domes, each with 2 telescopes. Each dome has a high magnification telescope and a wide field telescope. One dome is optimized for planetary views (e.g. more magnification and a different CCD), and the other is optimized for deep sky objects (e.g. less magnification, more light sensitive CCD). Each dome offers 2 telescopic views1 high magnification through a 14inch Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and a wide view through either a telephoto lens or an APO refractor.
On February 14, 2009, Slooh launched a second observatory in the hills above La Dehesa, Chile. This site offers views from the Southern Hemisphere. Currently, the Chile High-Magnification telescope is offline due to software compatibility, but is reportedly being fixed by technicians.
Also in February 2009, construction began on a third observatory located near Wandong in Victoria, Australia. The Wide-Field camera requires additional software programming in order to work on the Slooh system, and is also reportedly being fixed by technicians. The All-Sky camera has been calibrated, shipped, and is caught up in Australian customs with reported delays. Reservations will be activated for the telescope by users once the wide-field camera is operational.
References
^ "slooh.com - Traffic Details from Alexa". http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slooh.com. Retrieved October 9, 2009.
^ Alexa rank
^ "United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page". http://www.uspto.gov/. Retrieved October 9, 2009.
^ "SLOOH - About Us". http://www.slooh.com/about.php. Retrieved October 9, 2009.
^ "SLOOH - Observatory Status". http://www.slooh.com/status.php. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
External links
http://www.slooh.com
Slooh on Twitter
TechCrunch interview of Mike Paolucci
See also
Amateur astronomy
LightBuckets
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