Ispectrum Magazine Ispectrum Magazine #13 | Page 26

A n A udience w ith J upiter the Lord o f the N ight S k y by John Baruch, Edward Hand, Chris Tallon, Dan Hedges. Bradford Robotic Telescope. University of Bradford UK. [email protected] Photo credit:NASA O ur computers take us into amazing worlds where anything is possible, but reality can also deliver the amazing. How about using computers to take us into the real world, to control robots that will take images for us of the far distant reaches of the Universe? One such robot is the Bradford Robotic Telescope, situated 25 high on the northern side of Mount Teide on the Spanish island of Tenerife at the Instituto Astrofisica Canarias Northern Hemisphere Observatory. This is one of the few autonomous robots available on the web: www.telescope.org. See below for a free offer code for you to use it with Ispectrum.