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mustafar0111 t1_j6q155e wrote

You can technically rent telescope time at some observatories.

I don't see why this couldn't be done though. With EAA and like stacking being a thing now people should be able to live stream their camera feeds if they really want to.

I suppose I could try it one night.

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Bahiga84 t1_j6qorw1 wrote

The big telescopes have long waiting lists of scientists that want to use them for their research. After they gathered the Data, they spend months interpreting the Data to publish it. If that Data is available to anyone immediatly (live stream), others would try to publish it under their own names and would claim the fame of the initial scientists who had all the work. After all, they dont point it randomly at the sky, but have a scientific scope which they had to propose before getting time on the telescope. It just would'nt be fair to those people, that had all the work, just for others to claim the first publication afterwards. And yes, there are groups that do this, and thats how the academic world works. First publisher gets all the fame and recognition.

In case of special Events though, the idea is pretts cool.

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cp5184 t1_j6rrcem wrote

So put it on a one year delay or something. What does it matter if the stream is delayed?

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phil_sci_fi OP t1_j6t19do wrote

My guess is that people would really like to see it live. Sorta like how popular the "live stream of an eagle's nest" is vs. "a recording of an eagle's nest." There's just something about seeing it as it's happening, and being able to flip between different nebulas or galaxies or planets, with different types of telescopes and resolutions. I'm just speculating that I think such a service would be popular.

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OnlyAstronomyFans t1_j6sfnj3 wrote

The stream wouldn’t be super impressive. You’d still need to stack and process the image. You can rent time on fancy internet connected telescopes. I don’t remember the name of the service I used, but you could request specific objects or places in the sky. I had a free trial for one and it was kind of cool, but I’d rather do my own pictures.

It definite wasn’t live. They just sent you the data when they were done but it helped me practice stacking and processing

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SpartanJack17 t1_j74hdvf wrote

Hello u/phil_sci_fi, your submission "Is there a list of live-streaming telescopes?" has been removed from r/space because:

  • Such questions should be asked in the "All space questions" thread stickied at the top of the sub.

Please read the rules in the sidebar and check r/space for duplicate submissions before posting. If you have any questions about this removal please message the r/space moderators. Thank you.

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