I found the www.itelescope.net website and registered a free acount, simply amazing. I then upgraded my account for 5$ and got some more telescope time and access to more telescopes, even in Spain and Australia. The following picture was taken by one of my grade 8 students using a free account. 

I am well equiped for astrophotography, and many times the results are frustrating either because of the weather and often because of the hardware. I looked at the specs of the T3 telescope you can use with a free account and boy how I wish I had their mount, telescope, and camera !!!!  We are talking 25000$ of hardware on their most basic scope.  With an upgraded account you can dive into LRGB and even narrowband imaging.  So go get yourself a free acount and check out the weather to see if you can start imaging tonight ! Stellarium is a good tool to prepare you observations by choosing New Mexico as your location on the map or Albuquerque US as your town. Send me your pics if you want them posted on this page.

http://www.nightskiesnetwork.com/

A fantastic discovery I am also contributing to. A whole bunch of amateur astronomers who own a Mallincam, a hypersensitive astronomy camera made in Canada, broadcast their observing sessions live ! With my DSLR it could take anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes to make galaxies and nebulas appear in my pictures. With the Mallincam we are talking less than 30 seconds.

You can see the pictures live and chat with the astronomers.

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I am jsut a beginning astronomer and astrophotography is quite demanding. But this I an pround of. Thanks to the Celestron CPC11 our school has bought and a pentax K200D DSLR courtesy of Pentax Canada, I was able to take this picture of comet C/2009 R1 McNaught at 2:00 am. Had to get to the top of a mountain to get above the fog. This is a 2 minute exposure at ISO 1600.

Following my presentation at the canadian space agency for fellow canadian teachers, I finished compiling an easy to install Orbiter package with lots of missions.

Download Orbiter special CSA pack