Hi to all,
I'm writing an article about the experience for AS&T so you'll be able to "read all about it" soon.
About the credit Robby (no I wasn't offended), it goes to the operator. Taking images via the internet is not all that different to what I do here with my own system. You still have to select an object, slew the telescope, find a guidestar, start the guiding, setup the imaging run, which filters, how many images, etc. Then the images are saved as raw FITS which you have to download and process. You still need to consider the weather so most sites have a plethora of realtime weather information available and will automatically close if it detects clouds/rain.
The real differences are that the scope belongs to someone else, they have to maintain it and it's in another hemisphere giving you access to objects you can't get to from here.
Also, there is more than one 20" RCOS out there that is rentable. Unless you have the approx. $200k to spend on one, time renting is not a bad option
