1. Rent a magnificent remote robotic eye in the dark night sky:  citizen-science-friendly pay-per-view astronomical research at the Great Basin Observatory--imaging, speckle, and spectroscopy
Dr. John W. Kenney, III
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Physics
Chair, GBO Operations Committee
Concordia University
Irvine, California, USA

2. Great Basin National Park

4. GBO visionaries A great idea for a great park
Kelly Carroll
Paul Gardner
Park Ranger
Observatory Builder

5. Great Basin Observatory Cooperative
University Partners
University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Western Nevada College, Carson City, NV
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
Concordia University, Irvine, CA
National Park Partners
Great Basin National Park
Great Basin National Park Foundation

6. University Partners GBO Cooperative

7. Key contractors and vendors Great Basin Observatory

8. GBO University Cooperative 2016-present
UNR
WNC
SUU
CUI

9. GBO dream to GBO reality Telescope is lifted into place

10. Great Basin Observatory (GBO) Great Basin National Park

11. Remote robotic operation test GBO telescope/clamshell dome

12. Great Basin Observatory on-site “local control” room
Actually remote, robotically controlled online!

13. PlaneWave CDK 700 telescope Labeled schematics

14. GBO telescope details PlaneWave CDK 700
The primary mirror diameter of the CDK 700 telescope is 700 mm (28 in.) While there are many variations of the Cassegrain telescope the CDK is perhaps the best suited to large format CCD imaging

15. More GBO telescope details PlaneWave CDK 700
The GBO CDK 700 telescope a Cassegrain two-mirror telescope that employs lenses near the focus to produce sharp images across a large detector. This telescope type is known as a "Corrected Dall-Kirkham” or "CDK" variant of the basic Cassegrain form.

16. GBO and the Milky Way CDK 700 telescope

17. Light in GBNP—nighttime Milky Way galaxy

18. GBO image Spiral galaxy

19. GBO image “Hamburger” galaxy

20. GBO image Nebula

21. GBO image Double star system

22. GBO image: triple star system WDS 20023+6438C

23. Optical spectrum of Saturn Spectrum measured using GBO

24. Optical spectrum of Jupiter Spectrum measured using GBO

25. Shelyak eShel Spectrograph
Camera
Thorium/argon
power supply
Fiber from telescope
Echelle
spectrograph
R = 10,000

26. Solar spectrum-Fraunhofer lines Stellar spectral “classification”

27. Atomic/molecular spectra “Fingerprints” determine identity
Sodium D Doublet
Hydrogen Balmer

28. UNR undergrad exoplanet team GBO-based senior thesis projects
Tyson Lewis, Hannah Mason, Kelly Lane

29. Exoplanet transit in front of star Experimental data

30. Southern Utah University GBO light curve-exoplanet transit

31. GBO study of triple star system SUU undergrad research team
CDC Measurements of AB and AC Components of WDS
William Zerkle, Dallas Anselmo, Taylor Hammack, Gideon Johnson,
Morgan Taylor, Sterling Young,
and Rhett Zollinger
Southern Utah University

32. Classic “pay-per-view” telescope!
Photons out
$ in

33. Slooh pay-per-view

34. Slooh AstroLab
Slooh AstroLab offers college astronomy students the opportunity to robotically control a global network of telescopes to image over 500 celestial objects. Each student will be able to make reservations to view 500 objects in the night sky, everything you need to explore outer space and complete your coursework.
$29.95 per semester per student

35. itelescope “pay-per-view”
Various pay-per-view plans
Each telescope in network is assigned a certain # of points per imaging hour

36. GBO “pay-per-view” vision
Imaging
Speckle
Spectroscopy
GBO: first class, remote, robotic, pay-per-view, citizen-science-friendly astrophysics

37. Special thanks GBO design and development
Paul Gardner, Observatory Systems
Cole Niebuhr, Global Science Directive

38. GBO “stars” at Concordia
Mackenzie Graham
Chemistry major
Ruth Larson
Physics major