Links for rental scopes

[[1ponders]]

I was asked today for some links for rental scope sites. Rather than go searching I'd thought I'd do the clever thing and ask here. :)

Any links for online rental scopes would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[mithrandir]

There was an article in November "Sky at Night". There may be typos:

Bradford Robotic Telescope - http://telescope.org
MyTelescope - http://www.mytelescope.com
Skylive - http://skylive.it
SLOOH - http://www.slooh.com
Global Rent-a-Scope - http://global-rent-a-scope.com
Lightbuckets - http://www.lightbuckets.com

[Gama]

Well, if you lived in near me, you could just knock on my door and walk out the back ;) .

Theo

[[1ponders]]

Thanks for that Andrew. That just the sort of thing I was looking for.

If I'm ever down that way Theo I might just take you up on that. ;)

The links are for an article in a local magazine that is doing a story on our local Mapleton State Primary School and Community Observatory. The reporter wasn't aware that there were scopes out there for rent online.

[OzRob]

Cherry Mountain Observatory (http://www.cherrymountainobservatory.com/)

[troypiggo]

Are these places where the scopes are remote, you pay some money and get remote access/control of them? Or are they actual scopes you can take home and use at your own leisure?

[OzRob]

You use them remotely. I don't think Lightbuckets will let you take their 24" RCOS home to use...lol

[troypiggo]

Lol, yeah, I'd heard and knew a little about the Lightbuckets one. I meant are there scope rentals where you can take them home, obviously smaller stuff that's a little more portable.

I know some clubs etc have loaners. Just wondering if a rental place might have more options. I'm not really looking for myself, just throwing it out there for others that might have asked the original question.

[atalas]

Check this out guys!

http://www.northerngalactic.com/NGTelescopeL.jpg

There will be a limited subscriptions and you might want to check into the availability further.

[[1ponders]]

Thanks for all your help guys. I'm onto it. Troy; the links were for online astrophotography rather than renting telescopes, but thanks for your input. It was an area I hadn't thought about and have passed the info along.