Author: Erik

Slooh Quest Review

Slooh is more than a telescope as a service offering. Slooh is a vibrant community of astronomers all sharing their knowledge and experience. In addition to the community, Slooh is also a great way...

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Slooh Membership Review

Slooh.com is a remote telescope service where users can do remote astrophotography using a number of telescopes located in two hemispheres. This article reviews the memberships Slooh offers. I discuss an overall review of...

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How To Download FITS files from Slooh.com

If you’re an Apprentice or Astronomer member of Slooh.com, you get access to the FITS files for your observation so that you can process the image yourself using something like JS9, Fits Liberator, or...

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AR 2786 and Friends

The Sun is sporting three sunspots in this image – the Sun hasn’t been this active in years: The sunspots are as follows: AR2786 on the far left, AR2785 next, followed by AR2783 on...

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Sunspot AR2778

This is sunspot AR2778, at the lower-right part of the image, near the logo: This sunspot is huge – about 100,000km across and it is made up of about 12 cores. According to Spaceweather.com,...

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