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102•theblazehen•2d ago•23 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
654•klaussilveira•13h ago•190 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
944•xnx•19h ago•550 comments

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119•matheusalmeida•2d ago•29 comments

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38•helloplanets•4d ago•38 comments

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48•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

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228•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

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14•kaonwarb•3d ago•18 comments

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219•dmpetrov•14h ago•114 comments

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487•todsacerdoti•21h ago•241 comments

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359•aktau•20h ago•181 comments

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286•eljojo•16h ago•167 comments

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409•lstoll•20h ago•276 comments

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59•kmm•5d ago•4 comments

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31•romes•4d ago•3 comments

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251•i5heu•16h ago•194 comments

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15•bikenaga•3d ago•3 comments

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56•gfortaine•11h ago•23 comments

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1062•cdrnsf•23h ago•444 comments

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144•SerCe•9h ago•133 comments

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180•limoce•3d ago•97 comments

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287•surprisetalk•3d ago•41 comments

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147•vmatsiiako•18h ago•67 comments

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72•phreda4•13h ago•14 comments

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29•gmays•9h ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

Remote hosting for your telescope

https://www.sierra-remote.com/
151•gregorvand•6mo ago

Comments

tbagman•6mo ago
I can also recommend starfront observatories (https://starfront.space) for folks looking to do remote hosting. It's in a remote location in Texas with solid skies and great staff, and has a pretty unique model of high density hosting to drive down cost, seeing a ton of deep sky astrophotographers come.

From time to time there are fun collaborative projects too, like https://app.astrobin.com/u/bagman?i=ey9s59#gallery.

s0rce•6mo ago
Is this for hobbyists or industrial use?
tbagman•6mo ago
It's primarily for hobbyists. From the community discord, I know there are also serious rigs out there as well, on which some members are doing some astronomical science...
therein•6mo ago
Telescope datacenter, what a cool concept.
exe34•6mo ago
Farm might be a better word. Like render farm.
dmead•6mo ago
Obligatory comment that bray fals has been caught making up data ie, using Photoshop to paint detail in fals-1, the supposed new discovery that was actually already in some survey data.

Fun fact, Bray was the second jtw trident user in North America. I think I was the first.

Also, bit weird you can't come set up your own telescope.

tbagman•6mo ago
Evidence?
throwaway31131•6mo ago
I don't really know too much about this but apparently he calls himself an astrophotographer and not an astronomer, so maybe the use of photoshop isn't all that surprising.

https://www.bbcearth.com/news/extreme-night-sky-with-bray-fa...

dmead•6mo ago
his images on consumer hardware have smaller details than the hubble or meter wide telescopes on the ground. he says it's his processing skill, but it's probably really because he (at some stage of the process) puts his images through topaz denoise which invents detail.
fudged71•6mo ago
What are other examples of managed remote hosting of things that aren’t compute? I had considered this model for a 3D print farm years ago.
malfist•6mo ago
Telescopes are pretty common for this, but lab equipment is too. Universal particle accelerators and stuff
s0rce•6mo ago
Medical device manufacturing, kind of.
IgorPartola•6mo ago
Solar panel collectives.
digdugdirk•6mo ago
Wait... Collective? Not a utility? Are we talking about a neighborhood chipping in on a few panels, or something more interesting?
amoshebb•6mo ago
In nova scotia there are grants to build “community solar gardens”. A 3-6MW solar farm is built somewhere cheap and convenient and then anybody in the community can pay for so many panels and then they get that amount knocked off the light bill as if they had rooftop solar. Idea is it lets people buy solar unrelated to if they rent/own or have a good roof pitch or whatever.
tinix•6mo ago
amateur radio antenna farms also
BryanLegend•6mo ago
Factories & Food Delivery Kitchens
incognito124•6mo ago
Another telescope hosting service I heard about, based in Spain: https://www.pixelskiesastro.com/
yapyap•6mo ago
600/month

good for whomever that’s a cheap price lol, but I think if you’re a regular earning-ish person you would rather host the telescope in your own backyard

markus_zhang•6mo ago
Yeah looks very expensive unless I can pay say a day.
jalk•6mo ago
This service is for hosting your own remote controlled telescope, not short term rental of a shared telescope (think colo. vs cloud provider)
teamonkey•6mo ago
You can rent out viewing time on your remote telescope using services such as https://www.itelescope.net/ (you can search for telescopes hosted at SRO).

I wouldn’t expect it to be a massively profitable side hustle though.

malfist•6mo ago
That's a pretty reasonable price. Most are around $800
dnemmers•6mo ago
How much remote hands time does that include per month?

I’m guessing these still need ‘manual’ tweaking at times.

manquer•6mo ago
The backyard option is only feasible if you live somewhere without light pollution and clear skies, which is not most people.

$600/month is a reasonable deal if comparing it to driving couple of times a month to a dark sky location near you.

While it is fun and rewarding to be camping and hiking like that, the effort gets in the way of serious amateur astronomy.

Amateur astronomy is one of the few hobby science fields left where real contributions can be made and published without being a professional astronomer.

__egb__•6mo ago
It really depends what your goals/targets are. You can still do a lot with narrowband filters that make light pollution a minimal concern.

One of my favorite images was taken from a resort balcony with my telescope directly under a fluorescent light (pretty bright, probably a 75W equivalent) with plenty of other lights along the building and sidewalk below. I used an Optolong L-eXtreme filter.

I always show people the picture of the telescope setup first (which includes a fully-lit cruise ship passing in the background), get the, “Why did you even bother bringing a telescope to Aruba if there wasn’t anywhere good to use it?” reaction, then show my final image of the Lagoon nebula.

At home it’s not as bad, but there’s still a streetlight about 50 meters away, plus the neighbors’ deck lights…yet I don’t need to care about that at all.

Bonus, not fumbling around in almost complete darkness makes things so much easier when setting up and breaking down the gear.

aaronbrethorst•6mo ago
you can't not link to your photograph of the lagoon nebula after all that :)
zokier•6mo ago
Most backyards don't get

     • dark skies: 21.80 Mag/ArcSec²
     • 290 clear nights each year
ocdtrekkie•6mo ago
There's some wild stuff included though, roll-off roof enclosures over your telescope, gigabit symmetrical fiber on a mountain. Included a couple hours a month of specialized tech support.

Like it's definitely not for an occasional hobbyist but if it's your main hobby... it sounds kinda neat.

I could imagine $600/mo. being burned on more mundane hobbies like video games.

rtkwe•6mo ago
Better skies, less light pollution, already built observatory houses to cover during the day, no space/not allowed to build in your own back yard, etc. loads of reasons to go with a hosted solution instead of building one in your own back yard.
aragilar•6mo ago
If you've got some cheap dob with no tracking it makes sense to do it in your backyard (where the point is to look through eyepiece, not take photos), but $20 per night for everything but the actual scope at a high quality site is pretty good deal. I would expect given the other outlays to get a scope plus camera worth this site to be pretty large (e.g. at least 50k), so this is going to be a club or a school level thing, not an individual.

For comparison, pre-covid (so the cost has likely gone up quite a bit now) it was $200 a night for a 2m-class telescope and $1200 a night for a 4m-class telescope at a similar-ish site.

michaeldoron•6mo ago
This might be the smallest of marketing nitpickings, but the technical support is not free, it's complimentary for $600/month.
RainyDayTmrw•6mo ago
Since it's remote and networked to begin with, is there some way to get a time-share on one of these telescopes? I don't think I'm the target audience, but I imagine that one exists.
jmathai•6mo ago
Looks like it. From the For Sale page: "Some clients are looking for telescope sharing arrangements."
7373737373•6mo ago
Yes, https://www.itelescope.net/
ge96•6mo ago
There's some guy who built a ranch of remote operated telescopes for rent on YT pretty cool business
jalk•6mo ago
I've been looking to take my kids to an observatory, but the logistics makes it tricky (travel + night time), so I have been searching for online services where you can get a guided tour, with "hands-on" telescope control, but have so far come up short. It needs to be guided, since I know very little about astronomy and telescopes.
whartung•6mo ago
Try to see if there’s a local astronomy club. They tend to routinely have field nights where folks bring their equipment out, point it at something interesting and let the public engage in the activity.
rickydroll•6mo ago
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-clubs-organizations/

listing of clubs

[Edit: map locations are "aspirational". You will need additional research]

jalk•6mo ago
Thanks for the tip, but night + travel outside of the city, is why I'm looking for something online
teddy-smith•6mo ago
I had no idea this whole world exists and it makes me happy.
_xerces_•6mo ago
I don't understand this service. I feel it takes away from the experience. One of the few hobbies that gets you outside and under the stars and learning to navigate the sky and its motions was already being reduced to pressing a few buttons on a laptop connected to the scope. Now, you don't even leave your house?
ranger207•6mo ago
I think it's more for astrophotography enthusiasts where the hobby is more about getting good photography setups than looking at stars yourself