The Virtual Telescope Project

http://www.virtualtelescope.eu/

Located in central Italy, The Virtual Telescope Project presents two online, remotely controllable telescopes available through the Internet. Several options are available to access the scopes. First, you can join free public online observing sessions. These are hosted by the projects own astrophysicists. Second, you may buy telescope time and operate either the Celestron C14 or the Planewave 17 telescope yourself. You may use your time to operate the scope personally over the Internet or just pay for the imaging of specific objects. The website is easy to navigate and gets you to buying your telescope time quickly. Be sure to read the Conditions Of Use page as charges are clearly spelled out. The News page acts as a blog of events concerning the project. Images here give a good impression of the capabilities of the system. The Virtual Telescope Project is on all the major social networks.