Turns out there's a place in Texas where you can rent a telescope for as little as $99/month. Astrophotographers ship their gear to this ranch and control it from anywhere in the world. Here's one of the images produced {kottke.org} https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories. Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditions — ultra-dark skies (Class 1 on the Bortle scale), clear weather, and fast internet — so astrophotographers from around the world can run