These courses are taken by both science and non-science students, and are now offered at other institutions as well. Skynet University offers the same introductory astronomy courses that we have developed for our students at UNC to everyone everywhere. However, Skynet is also open to anyone who takes our tuition-free, self-paced Astronomy with Skynet courses through Skynet University!
They have taken over 16 million images for tens of thousands of users.įor the most part, access to Skynet is limited to the institutions that have contributed the telescopes (each ~$100K or more). Headquartered at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and funded primarily by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and private donations, Skynet’s telescopes span four continents.
Skynet is a global network of fully automated, or robotic, telescopes serving professional astronomers, students of all ages - graduate through elementary school - and the public over the internet. Star trails, including the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, over Skynet’s 32-inch diameter PROMPT-C7 telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes.
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