Online Observing Damian Peach Armchair Imaging In the digital age, you don't need your own telescope to take stunning astrophotos. LIGHTBUCKETS DAMIAN PEACH VIRTUAL DARK SKIES Facilities like the LightBuckets Dome in southern France offer amateurs access to dark-sky conditions that would otherwise require hours of travel or more to reach. Below: Author Damian Peach monitors conditions in Australia while imaging from half a world away. 70 August 2015 sky & telescope The internet age has brought about many radical changes to our hobby, not least to astrophotography. Yet while the advent of large-format CCD detectors has revolutionized both amateur and professional imaging techniques, a second revolution has been occurring in recent years that has totally changed the game for imagers. That is the rapidly expanding access to high-speed internet, which has made it possible to use high-end telescopes in remote locations worldwide. These days it's not necessary to drive to remote darksky sites to take deep, colorful astrophotos. In fact, owning a telescope of your own is no longer a requirement to produce jaw-dropping images. Renting time on remote telescopes via the internet has become an increasingly popular way for both amateur and professional astronomers to conduct observations. Location, Location, Location Imaging with telescopes thousands of miles away is quickly becoming commonplace. Several entrepreneur-