Buying Telescope Time
MAKE Magazine reports from Toy Fair, a cool idea: a gift card which buys time on major telescopes, time which you can control from your computer.
Telescopes have gotten amazingly good in the last 15 years and the ability to connect them to computers (for more precise movement and tracking), as well as advances in photography, allow for glorious pics. Some dude I follow on flickr has some gorgeous pictures including the one below, of the Horsehead Nebula.
