Citizen Astronomers Come Out of the Closet With Slooh.com’s 21^st Century Telescope

NEW YORK--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--There’s an epidemic of telescopes trapped in closets from holidays past. It’s human to want to connect to the Universe with our own eyes. But rampant light pollution has ruined the sky of the past and telescopes are not always so easy to use. Enter Slooh.com, the world’s first LIVE online observatory. With 21^st century remote control telescopes, Slooh delivers dark skies to any computer, allowing all to watch the cosmos as it unfolds in real time.

“Slooh empowers people to make the next big discovery, or they can just kick back and watch it like space TV”

Since 2003, Slooh’s flagship robotic observatory in the Canary Islands has delivered almost a quarter million live images to its global membership – including news-making comets and asteroids as they whiz by Earth. Slooh will soon open an additional observatory in Chile, opening the Southern Hemisphere for live viewing and discovery.

Slooh members, most with no previous astronomy experience, control the telescopes and take their own astrophotos with point-and-click ease. This month, they caught amazing live views of the exploding Comet Holmes and shared their own pictures on mySlooh.com.

SkyGuides on Slooh Radio deliver live commentary, space news, and how-to specials every night - liberating those underused traditional telescopes and enhancing the astronomy hobby. “Slooh empowers people to make the next big discovery, or they can just kick back and watch it like space TV,” says COO Tierney O’Dea.

For the holiday season, online gift certificates are available for the all-inclusive Commander Membership. For the price of an entry-level telescope ($99), Slooh delivers one year of unlimited telescope time on their observatory network, mySlooh webspace, and unlimited photo storage. A new 500 Minute Membership Card ($29.95) and family Slooh Activity Book ($14.95), featuring the greatest hits of the night sky, are both available at retail locations nationwide.

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