remote telescope reviews?

I can’t tell exactly what you want.  The title implies that you might be looking for a remote observatory but your post implies that you are looking for data.  If you are looking for data, go talk to Bill Long at Dark Matters.

John

Bill McLaughlin:
Yes, there are three remote possibilities. Hosting your own equipment, using someone else's equipment to gather data, and buying data acquired by others. Not sure which you mean but I am not a fan of the last one - you might as well download professional data in that case.

While I don’t want to argue preference, professional data from Hubble or JWST requires a bit of a different overall workflow to process appropriately. The data from sites like ours, is identical in terms of its format to amateur data and does not require doing anything different — other than we handle all of the preprocessing tasks ahead of time and customers engage with master data only.

Bill

i looked at your dark matters site and was a little confused.  if someone subscribes to the site what exactly does that provide?  all the data fom a aprticular scope for a year?

Correct, you can reach out via email to us for a more in depth discussion. I don’t want to use Sal’s forums for means he doesn’t intend them to be used for.

We’ve just released new automation that should speed up the time to finish of a project on our scopes and when it ends up available for customers. Everything goes through our human centric QC process (which won’t change) but getting the intermediate toil automated will be huge for customers and for us. We have two scopes cutover to the new process now and are working on the rest, with our SVX180 system getting its backlog cleared and onto the new platform.

The two scopes on this new automation landed all of their June projects fully customer ready by July 1 which has been a long term goal for us. We also have very rich data about imaging quality that still give us tangible means to further tune our systems to perfection.

We’re also making this automation available to people to use themselves so there’s full transparency as well as helping out and giving back. While we are a business at the end of the day, we’re also caring members of the community that want to do what’s right to further enhance the field of Astrophotography.

I, too, will quit Telescope. Live after their format and policy changes.  

One source of data that is not mentioned above is https://astrophotomarket.com/, which has a nice variety of data for sale at reasonable prices.  I've processed several of their data sets, and all have been of good quality.  It is an interesting business concept of marketing data from amateur imagers, which would otherwise just sit on someone's hard drive, benefiting no one.

George

Ironically, IOTD today is with Dark Matters Data. (Fantastic Image by Scott BTW)   https://app.astrobin.com/?i=lx4q9l

There is omiastro 
https://www.omiastro.com/