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...

I wanted to see first hand just how good LB-0001 could be at finding 20-21st magnitude objects so that I could pass the word on to our customers. Now I know... I imaged for an average of 2 hours per night for 7 nights straight (I did my imaging when the scope wasn't already booked). Out of these 14 hours of imaging, I found 17 new objects that have received provisional designations ...

LCROSS Lunar Impact in 3 days 19 hours and 54 minutes (and a few seconds). I have begun imaging the targeted impact area, Cabeus Crater, with the .61m telescope (see first image attached). Hopefully we'll be able to capture some of the action, which will happen around 5:30am local time (4:30 PDT). The Moon will be perfectly placed - almost directly overhead. LB-0001 is now offline f...