Catch a Star - Using the Internet to capture photographs of distant stars.

Something amazing is sitting on the roof of the Physics building at UC Santa Barbara. It is a remote access telescope that feeds its night sky star images to computers all over the world via the Internet.

Here at Camp Internet we have enjoyed the professors who invented and maintain this equipment as regular Trail Guides. Dr. Phil Lubin is the founder of the Remote Access Astronomy Project, and Tom Fuller who works with the program, are both involved in helping learners of all ages learn to use this telescope via the Internet.

Here is a picture of the telescope on the roof at UC Santa Barbara, standing right on the spot where early Native American astronomers walked and watched the stars.

This is a sample of one of the photographs that can be captured by the RAAP telescope and downloaded to your computer over the Internet.

You can learn to send your requests to this same telescope, and later enjoy seeing the images it has taken of the coordinates you have inputted into its system. Discover the universe over the Internet ? We are offering you a chance to get to know it, star by star, thanks to the resources at RAAP.

Instructions on how to use the Remote Access Astronomy Web site

Click here to enter the Remote Access Astronomy Project web site.

The Remote Access Astronomy project and Remote Access Telescope
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