This is the coolest thing I have seen for a while: http://www.nightskiesnetwork.com/ - astronomers broadcasting live using a Mallincam (basically a high end integrated video camera attached to a telescope). You get a live feed of whatever the astronomer is observing and you can interact through a chat window. The strangest (and oddly compelling) thing is that the astronomer can broadcast audio - so you can make comments, ask questions etc through the chat window and hear a verbal audio response. Weird but cool at the same time.
I was just watching a stream of M92 (a globular cluster in Hercules) and then M57 (the Ring Nebula) through some guy's C8. Really amazing to see the color and detail in M57. I am going to be adding a Mallincam to my wish list ...
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