Explore Space With Telescopes You Control Over The Internet

Now you can use robotic telescopes to explore the cosmos. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has developed an online interface for users to control 3-foot-tall reflecting telescopes, from their home computers, to capture the light from distant objects in space. Instead of an eyepiece, the telescopes focus their light onto CCDs.

From their website: "This Observing With NASA website is part of a NASA-funded project to make the MicroObservatory robotic telescopes accessible to all audiences who want to appreciate and understand the amazing images and data from NASA's space science missions. Using many of the same technologies that NASA uses to capture astronomical images by controlling telescopes in space, YOU can control a sophisticated ground-based telescope from the convenience of your computer."

First you choose your target are in space and after selecting other parameters, you submit your email address along with your request for the telescope to take the image. Within 48 hours you receive a notification with links to your image.