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...