Overview

I have recently signed up for an account at Slooh, an observatory rental business with locations primarily in the Canary Islands, but with 1 scope also in Chile for viewing southern skies. I'll try to review the service here, as well as gather some of the better images I get. Since I live in Cincinnati the weather is often bad and the light pollution is always bad. I would really love to set up my own dedicated scope, and really would if I had decent seeing here. In fact I've considered several options, but anything within a reasonable distance to me also has these problems, and the place I would love to be Deep Sky West is more expensive than I can currently justify. But maybe someday. In the meantime Sloohlets me indulge my inters at a reasonable cost.

Review of Slooh Service

Slooh has an interesting model.

Locations The primary location is in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife, atop Mount Teibe, at about 8,000'. Here they have 5 scopes, 4 night scopes and 1 solar telescope - but I have yet to see an image from that one, so I'm not sure it's operational. The other current (April 2019) location is in La Dehesa, Chile (near Santiago) for viewing southern skies, with only 1 scope.