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OMI Astro remote telescopes are ready for new astrophotography season

Monday, November 10, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

OMI Astro remote telescopes offer astronomers and astrophotography enthusiasts the opportunity to conduct imaging sessions using professional-grade telescopes without traveling to observatories. The service provides users with online access to equipment located in optimal viewing locations, allowing for clear and precise celestial observations. Accessing profession...

ZuluAlpha remote observatory phase 1 reservation now open

Monday, October 20, 2025 by Austin Harris

The newly launched ZuluAlpha remote observatory near Sutherland, South Africa, is now accepting reservations for Phase 1 of its remote hosting facility. Built on a high plateau under some of the darkest skies on Earth, the observatory allows astronomers, astrophotographers, and research institutions to operate telescopes and instruments remotely. The site has been desig...

ZuluAlpha remote observatory

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 by Richard Harris

A new opportunity has emerged for astrophotographers and research institutions seeking unparalleled views of the southern celestial hemisphere. ZuluAlpha Remote Observatory, a newly developed facility near Sutherland, South Africa, offers a unique fusion of pristine skies, flexible hosting infrastructure, and turn-key access to the deep-sky wonders visible only from bel...

EkosLive cloud review

Friday, March 7, 2025 by Richard Harris

EkosLive is an online cloud astrophotography platform that provides astronomers with the ability to control remote observatories from any location at any time. This cloud-based application offers a comprehensive suite of tools for scheduling capture sequences, viewing images, and engaging with the astrophotography community. Recent updates have introduced a range of new...

Astronomy Picture of the Day

2026-04-03

Caught in the Web: Visualization of a Black Hole Merger in the Tarantula Nebula

Image Credit: Carl Knox

How can we see what is invisible? Black holes are not easy to see in the dark cosmic night, but astronomers can find them by analyzing their gravitational effects on matter, light and spacetime. The featured image shows an illustration that combines a simulation of a black hole binary system in its final "death-dance" with an astrophotography image of the Tarantula Nebula in the background. Even though black holes don't emit light, they distort the path of light rays, acting like a gravitational lens. As a result, the nebula appears extremely distorted, forming Einstein rings and multiple images. Tarantula Nebula lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, 160,000 light-years away. That is more than 1,000 times closer than any of the binary black hole mergers detected so far. We'll probably never detect a merger so close to home!