We are in the process of putting together a number of video tutorials to acquaint you with us and to guide you through using LightBuckets. The first video, Quick Tour, is available now in the Support area. We plan to have a complete tutorial line up for you very shortly which will include: * Welcome * Quick Tour

I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you to LightBuckets. Our goal is to provide you with access to some of the best astronomy instruments in the world, from some of the darkest sky locations available, at an affordable price that keeps you coming back. That's a pretty tall order but one I believe we can deliver on. To demonstrate our commitment to this goal, we are launching LightBuckets ...

We have officially begun construction of our fourth observatory platform to be designated LB-0003. This observatory will be located at our main site in Rodeo, NM and will house a Takahashi TOA-150 on a Software Bisque Paramount ME. With three world-class deep sky instruments already in our inventory, we felt it was important to bring online a wide-field instrument as well. And, nothing fits the...

It was almost two years ago that Brad Ehrhorn from RC Optical Systems called me and asked if I would like to accept on loan a 24” F10 RCOS telescope and a Professional Series Equatorial Fork mount. Brad delivered the telescope in short order but the mount was still under development. It was pure coincidence that we had been developing a conversion of the venerable Byers’ Series III German Equatori...