Introducing the Revolution in Astronomy
nextAstro at a glance
Observatory Owners
The worlds first truly customisable decentralised heterogenous robotic telescope network. Using the NextAstronomy Control Suite, you can automate your entire observatory, weather and data pipeline. Whether this is entirely for your own private secret use or for sharing with friends (and strangers!) across the world is up to you! We welcome any and all suggestions about we can make your observatory work for you and anyone you would like to share it with!
We are now particularly looking for new observatories to come onboard (small or large, new or old, we do not judge! Our software works from the very small (Canon DSLR with a 35 mm lens, 3” refractor) up to metre-class observatories and beyond. Our system works fluidly with the largest chips on the market. Smaller older observatories with older technology can still be fabulous for exoplanets!
Want to use a telescope
Have you ever wondered whether you could take some beautiful images of a galaxy or a planet or even the moon? Or Do some real astronomy research looking for planets around other stars?
Whether you are a student, teacher or just someone who would like to do take pictures of galaxies, nebula; exoplanet studies or variable star studies. NextAstro provides you with the opportunity to access state-of-art telescopes from around the world. We also have a long history of bringing telescopes into the classroom. If any of these are you, please contact us here for a guided (zoom) tour!
Signing up for a free account gives you 600 NexTokens – translatable to telescope time – to use on the NextAstro telescope network.
Try nextAstro
Sign up now for FREE and get 600 NexTokens to start you on your journey into the Universe.
NextAstro provides you access to a growing group of telescopes around the world, each with their own unique identity, their own equipment, their own capacities and their own specialities!
We have tools to help you easily find double stars, exoplanets, open clusters, globular clusters, asteroids, comets and all sorts of galaxies, nebulae and variable stars!
Our support team and courses and tutorials will help you through learning how to use telescopes, take images, make pretty pictures, take measurements, contribute to science and make discoveries!
Tour of NextAstro
Astronomy Education, Training and Observatory Management.
Our mission is to provide distributed astronomy technology solutions, education and training for students, teachers, schools, institutions and private operators.
Why Choose our Services?
We enable you to learn astronomy through a variety of different courses, experiences and clubs catering to different groups. We enable you to teach astronomy through professional development, training and easy access to robotic telescope technology. For those that have observatories, we design and manage observatories and their data over time so that you can concentrate on your teaching, your colour imaging or your science projects. We facilitate the sharing of telescope resources to duck and weave around the weather as well as provide capacity to share your facility and for you to access other facilities around the world. We provide program evaluation and research for STEM related projects.
NextAstro is focussed on attempting to solve the problem of providing Astronomy Education at Scale.
Our Team has had a long unique experience in astronomy education, engineering and management. Our insight, experience and – if we are being honest – some good fraction of sheer luck has placed us with the capacity to boost and support access at a unique inflection point in the world of astronomy education and technology provision.
MANAGEMENT, AUTOMATION & SHARING
Make your observatory thrive
- Powered by NextAstro Control Suite
- Automation of observatories
- Reduction, processing and provision of data
- Linking your observatory to others across the globe.
- Connecting with other people in the Ne(x)tWork
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Architect your dream observatory
- Independent advice about “off the shelf” and custom made observatories
- Expertise in specifying and sourcing equipment by experienced astronomers
- Helping clients develop equipment plans and budgets
- Help with “Bringing it all together” and equipment tuning
an intriguing mechanism to make good use of your latent spare telescope time for yourself and for others.
For research, the requirements can be as varied as the scientific questions themselves!
Prefer to sleep than stay up all night with your scope? Or even go away camping for the month? Leave it in our hands.
