[Shiraz (Ray)]

thanks Silv.

Huge distance to go before anything like this could become a reality. I am not yet too sure that it would be a useful capability in the end anyway - need feedback from those who have more knowledge of the professional side of astronomy.

Interesting to contemplate possibilities and a couple of additional benefits over a fixed scope come to mind:
- such a distributed capability could be relatively immune to clouds - clouds at one site would not stop imaging at others.
- final stacks could be based on seeing and poor seeing results from one location could be excluded or stacked appropriately - and would not ruin the result.

and then there is the problem of the voluntary acceptance of some form of external organisation by a group of people who really do this as an enjoyable hobby where they are able to express individual skills. effectively turning it into a part time unpaid job where they are just part of the crowd might not appeal to many, so that aspect would need to be worked around.

but I think it is still worth thinking about.