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Name:SLOOH
Link:http://www.slooh.com
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SLOOH is the first and only Web site to bring incredible, live viewing of outer space to the public. SLOOH has positioned high powered telescopes on the Canary Islands, one of the world’s best locations for astronomical viewing, and is allowing people to control them from their own computer! Bringing the rhythms and wonder of space exploration to people of all ages, SLOOH’s mighty telescopes are the centerpiece of ‘LIVE’ interactive missions to the 20 known wonders of the universe. SLOOH is now accepting a limited number of memberships for the first mission set to launch on December 25th.

Basic Membership: $49 per year for unlimited group missions, including voting missions, plus 15 minutes of solo mission time.

Deluxe Membership: $99 per year for unlimited group missions, including voting missions, plus 90 minutes of solo mission time.

Additional solo time can be purchased in 15-minute intervals for $19.95. Discounted usage licenses are available to educators and affiliated institutions.
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SLOOH
I have been into astronomy for over 30 years. I own three telescopes and 2 pairs of binoculars. So, what do I think about Slooh.com? Well, Slooh is a great site. I will recommend this site to anybody starting from someone that knows nothing about astronomy and to an avid, enthusiastic hobbyist. $49 a year for a basic membership is a fair and very reasonable price. Although, Slooh.com is fairly new it already has an array of very impressive telescopes and CCD cameras. And from what I read they will be updating their equipment and adding new locations around the globe. So, in time, members will be able to observe 24 hours a day! However, for those of you that never used a telescope, a warning. The image you will see while using Slooh.com and the image through a telescope will be different for most of the objects. In my opinion, some objects look better though a telescope and other objects look better at Slooh.com (long exposure photographs).

Anyway, based on a cost of a membership and what you get for it, I will rate this site as a 10.

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Awesome site, I may sign up!

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