The Shared Skies remote telescope network is a longstanding live remote observing partnership between UniSQ and the University of Louisville (Kentucky, USA).
Queensland’s Mount Kent Observatory provides a southern-hemisphere perspective to US-based telescopes at Moore Observatory in Kentucky and Mt. Lemmon in Arizona.
The latitude difference of the sites provides full sky coverage, and the longitude difference enables long duration observations and observing in the daytime for those in the opposite hemisphere.
The telescopes are used for the NASA TESS Follow-up Program, transit photometry to discover and characterise exoplanets, and support student research training, education, and outreach.
The dark skies at Mount Kent Observatory offers views of the centre of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and transient events not visible from mid-latitudes in the northern hemisphere.
Moore Observatory, in a forested nature preserve near Louisville, Kentucky, offers live images of bright planets and the Moon, and viewing of the occasional northern comet and supernova to those in Australia.
