During our journey, you and your class will take control of either the Charles Sturt University Remote Telescope in Australia (Currently not available) or the SkyTitan Telescope in the USA over the Internet. As you control one of these telescopes, your students will tell it where to point and tell its electronic cameras to take pictures that the computer screen or projector will display for all to see. Students will be save the images that the cameras have taken on our computer at the observatory. At the end of the session when you logoff, the observatory computer sends a series of emails to the teacher each with one of the images attached that the students have saved during their session.

Before taking control of the telescope, you and your class will learn how to process and perhaps print the images to produce dramatic pictures of the objects supplied on the flash drive. Later they will do the same things with the objects that they have taken with the telescope and cameras.

Let us not have any misconceptions here. Your class will control the telescope. It will point where your class tells it to point and it will take pictures of the things your class has decided to image. No one else will have control of the telescope when your class is on-line. Both the telescope and the cameras will be your instruments to control.

You and your students will need to plan for this observation session. Your students will need to learn about the celestial objects that the telescope and cameras can see at the time the class connects. It is through this promise of controlling the telescope and its cameras that students become intensely motivated to learn about astronomy.