Testing Phase was ended end of october. As you know it's a lot of hardware and software tests and we thanks Lightbuckets community to be so reactiv. We are now entering on our new launching phase since 11.11.11 with some image now pricing promotions to help us fine tune observatories. As usual, and more than ever you will find refunds if an imagi...

Great news : Lightbuckets is coming back ! Consider that we will have from now some works to connect new observatories, tune and test all together to offer you some new sites and telescopes. Planning will be as follow : - setup and link new Planewave CDK 17 / STL 11 K / Paramount - setup and link TMB 7" / STL 11K / Paramountbr ...

Last nights we turned on a major update to LightBuckets. The primary new feature is call Multi-targeting. This should be a great addition for researchers doing variable star, minor planet, and exoplanet work. Multi-targeting gives you the ability to image a target, slew and image another target, and keep going. No more setting up multiple individual imaging runs...

I am thrilled to announce a new partnership between LightBuckets and Astronomy magazine. As part of this partnership, LightBuckets is now the official online observatories for Astronomy magazine. Michael Bakich, Senior Editor at Astronomy magazine, and I have been working on putting this partnership together for quite some time and it is finally seeing the light of day. You can se...

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 ...