They had a huge ad in the latest Astronomy magazine, so I used my "newsstand customer" ID to log in to astronomy.com, and visited Slooh, as indicated was possible, but apparently he still has it set up so you can only go on "missions" starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time, which I suppose is when it's dark enough in the Canary Islands to see stars, but it's still kind of like you have to make an appointment with yourself to remember to sit down and view. And at 9 p.m. Eastern time I am usually doing other things.
And, the "missions" still only run from 5 to 15 minutes--I still don't "get" why someone would sit here for long minutes waiting for a remote telescopic image to form, when they can go outside and look at the stars directly.
The only use I can think of for it would be if you wanted to eyeball celestial objects that your own personal telescope didn't have the magnification to pick up. But it would still be like you were just looking at an APOD, and I don't see where the fun is in that. Or why you should pay a membership fee for that.
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