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Slooh is an amateur robotic telescope service that can be viewed live through any computer with a simple browser and a Flash plug-in.

The name Slooh comes from the word "slew" to indicate a movement of a telescope. But since the service wants to give users a big user experience, it has been changed to Slooh, where the "ooh" is used to express pleasure, satisfaction, surprise, or great joy.

The observatory is located at the Canary Islands, specifically the island Tenerife on the volcano called Teide at 3.5 km height, far away from any city light pollution and high above the atmosphere so you get even better images.

There are 2 domes, each with 2 telescopes. Each dome has a high magnification telescope and one has a wide field telescope. The difference between the dome Telescopes is that one dome is optimized for planetary views (e.g. more magnification different CCD) and the other for deep sky objects (e.g. less magnification, more light sensitive CCD). One dome is under the operation of the astronomers of the observatory, while the other is available for amateurs to reserve and guide.