[HN Gopher] Remote hosting for your telescope
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Remote hosting for your telescope
Author : gregorvand
Score : 23 points
Date : 2025-07-31 00:23 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sierra-remote.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sierra-remote.com)
| tbagman wrote:
| I can also recommend starfront observatories
| (https://starfront.space) for folks looking to do remote hosting.
| It's in a remote location in Texas with solid skies and great
| staff, and has a pretty unique model of high density hosting to
| drive down cost, seeing a ton of deep sky astrophotographers
| come.
|
| From time to time there are fun collaborative projects too, like
| https://app.astrobin.com/u/bagman?i=ey9s59#gallery.
| fudged71 wrote:
| What are other examples of managed remote hosting of things that
| aren't compute? I had considered this model for a 3D print farm
| years ago.
| incognito124 wrote:
| Another telescope hosting service I heard about, based in Spain:
| https://www.pixelskiesastro.com/
| yapyap wrote:
| 600/month
|
| good for whomever that's a cheap price lol, but I think if you're
| a regular earning-ish person you would rather host the telescope
| in your own backyard
| markus_zhang wrote:
| Yeah looks very expensive unless I can pay say a day.
| teamonkey wrote:
| You can rent out viewing time on your remote telescope using
| services such as https://www.itelescope.net/ (you can search
| for telescopes hosted at SRO).
|
| I wouldn't expect it to be a massively profitable side hustle
| though.
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