Congratulations go out to Tilan Ukwatta of George Washington University and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (and also a member of the Swift team) for successfully imaging the visible light afterglow of Gamma Ray Burst 100901A. Tilan used LB-0001 on September 2nd, 2010 to capture the GRB with the R filter approxima...

With the support of some of the great imagers who use LightBuckets, we are happy to announce that posters are now available for some of the best, award-winning images created using LightBuckets telescopes. You can purchase them at the LightBuckets Zazzle store at http://www.zazzle.com/lightbuckets. The posters are the Featured Items ...

I am happy to announce that effective today we are rolling out a new pricing program called ImageNow. Here's how it works... Sometimes we have open telescope capacity that we would prefer to sell at a discounted rate rather than let the observatories sit idle (this is less true for the week before and after new Moon...but you never know). We de...

LightBuckets announced today that they have teamed up with Bill Gates and the ex-Microsofties at Intellectual Ventures Lab (http://intellectualventureslab.com/) on a mission to control the weather. The partnership will be formally known as "MCS" which is short for "Mission Clear Skies". Also announced today is an a...

LightBuckets is featured in this month's Sky & Telescope in an article entitled "Observatories on the Web". The story was written by LightBuckets customer Andy Macica...congratulations Andy on a terrific article. Pick up your copy of the March 2010 issue of Sky & Telescope now and turn to page 36! Cover page from the article is attached, showing the LightBuckets .61m teles...

As you can see by the new home page, LightBuckets has changed. While we think that the new design looks good, the purpose was really to present information in a more organized and consistent way. We have put together a brief introductory video to show you some of the new site features. We wanted our experienced...