Is this for hobbyists or industrial use?
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...
Telescope datacenter, what a cool concept.
Farm might be a better word. Like render farm.
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.
Evidence?
Re:Remote Hosting for Your Telescope
by throwaway31131 on Sunday August 03, 2025 @11:44AM
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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...
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.
From time to time there are fun collaborative projects too, like https://app.astrobin.com/u/bagman?i=ey9s59#gallery.