Three Free Online Telescopes

Bradford Robotic Telescope: www.Telescope.org
Telescope: 14-inch-diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain
Location: Tenerife, Canary Islands
Field of view: From the north celestial pole to 52 degrees south
Pictures back in: Days, sometimes weeks
Results: 1,056 x 1,027-pixel color or black-and-white JPEGs
Cost: Free

Micro-Observatory: mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory
Telescope: 6-inch-diameter Maksutov
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Amado, Arizona
Field of view: Northern celestial hemisphere to 48 degrees south
Pictures back in; Days, often overnight
Results; 650 x 500-pixel black-and-white GIFs
Cost; Free

Seeing in the Dark: www.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/explore-the-sky
Telescope: 14-inch-diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain
Location: Mayhill, New Mexico
Field of view: Northern celestial hemisphere to about 45 degrees south
Pictures back in: Days to weeks
Results: 512 x 512-pixel black-and-white JPEGs
Cost: Free

from http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/st_telescopes