Massive amateur telescope array

The modern high end amateur telecopes you can buy these days come with computer interfaces that when hooked up to a computer and some software like Starry Night (http://www.starrynight.com/pro_plus.html), let the observer aim the telecope at an object automatically.

As digital cameras get better and cheaper and I'm sure people are using these with telescopes.

Now, add the Internet. Instead of software like Starry Night, the user sets up their telescope and lets other people use it remotely as part of a large telescope array.

For reasons of practicality, I don't imagine that people will just set up their multi-thousand dollar telescopes and leave them hooked up to the internet all the time. I imagine that an amateur would sign up for a particular viewing. They would then have their equipment up and connected to the central server during a specific time.

Imagine a few hundred telescopes aimed at the same object, all relaying a digital image back to a central location which combines and processes the images into one high definition image. I imagine that such an image could rival those of the largest and most expensive telescopes.

Possible problems: - too many images of not high enough quality. - even though there are many images, it may not actually be possible to combine them and have a higher resolution image.