Thursday, October 26, 2006

Guy risks sleep over love of galaxies

Slooh ? a pun on the verb ?slew,? as in changing a telescope?s orientation, and the exclamation ?ooh!? ? is the brainchild of a dot-com zillionaire named Michael Paolucci, who made his mark in online video and advertising companies. He had the bucks to combine his love of astronomy with his knowledge of online commerce, so he did. Paolucci leased space on a 7,000-foot-high mountain on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, off the west coast of Africa, where an observatory has existed for three decades. He built five telescopes in two domes and an all-sky camera, then hooked them to a Web server in New York City ...

Slooh's 'primary software' guy risks sleep over love of galaxies