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How to Purchase Credits
"Viewing credits" or "credits" are how you pay for your telescope time:
they are purchased (usually with a credit card) and applied to
your MyTelescope account, ready for when you go to book a telescope.
When you book a telescope, the estimated number of credits needed for the
booking are placed on "reserve" in your account, and when the session
is over, the actual cost of the session is deducted and the remainder
are taken off reserve.
Purchasing Credits
You can purchase credits at any time simply by clicking the
"Purchase Credits" link found on the left side menu of most pages.
That page will show you a list of "packages" you can purchase -
packages vary in the number of credits they contain and their cost.
To pay for the package you select, click on the "Pay with PayPal"
button - this will take you to PayPal's site where you can
either use your PayPal account or your credit card to pay for the MyTelescope package (PayPal does not require that you have an account with them if you are paying with your credit card).
When you have finished the PayPal purchase, you should be sent back
to the MyTelescope site and you may continue to book a session.
Checking Your Viewing Credit Balance
You can view the details of credit purchases and uses
at any time by clicking "Account Info" link.
The "Balances" link gives you
a very short summary of the number of available credits you have
and the number that are currently "reserved" for bookings you've
made that are in the future.
More detailed information is available in the "Transactions"
link, which shows when you added credits
to your account and when they were deducted.
Once You Have Viewing Credits
Once you have some credits, the next step is
to learn how to Book a Telescope.
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