Hi yall.
I've recently been looking at the global rent-a-scope website as a possible stop gap solution to astrophotography. It caught my curiosity.
Fact is, right now I can't afford to spend the money required to get involved in astrophotography, and frankly, even if I did, the idea of going through all that hassle to collect data makes me tired just thinking about it.
The idea of sitting in my nice comfortable room and imaging during the day because the scope in question happens to be on the other side of the world, where it is dark, prepped and ready for my use has a certain appeal.
I fully realise that renting a scope in this way will not allow me to tweak and fiddle with the hardware component of astrophotography the way those in the IIS community can and do to produce some of the fantasic images seen here, but it might at least be enough for me to dip my toe in and whet my appetite somewhat.
I guess I'm really asking if anyone has used this service, and if so, was it good, bad, indifferent? What sort of results did you get from it? Any hassles that I should be aware of?
Much obliged.
