Internet Astronomy (Courtesy of Harvard & NASA)

You can do astronomy from the comfort of your own computer & internet connection without having purchased telescopes etc..

My Andromeda picture

My first photo of the Moon

Visit the Harvard Micro-Observatory pages to do some observing with NASA and you can choose what you want to look at from a menu and set the camera settings (Filters, exposures etc). A picture is taken that night and you get an e-mail with links to your picture(s). For some observations you can shoot with RGB filters and build up a colour image using free Java software from the site.

(1) Choose the target

(2) Choose settings

(3) Enter your e-mail details

My first (feeble) efforts are on this page - why not have a go and see if you can do better (I'm sure you can)?
Teachers - here is an opportunity to combine ICT with some physics teaching (or vice-versa) and to tie in with the recent BBC Stargazing.series.(Oh and did I mention that it is all free!).