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...

Our friends over at RC Optical Systems announced an astronomer's stimulus program where they are offering terrific discounts on their 16RC, 20RC, and 24RC telescopes. We thought it was such a great idea that we've decided to join them in offering our own astronomer's stimulus program. For a limited time, we have cut our telescope rental rates by an amazing 50% (or more) to help our customers conti...

LightBuckets is happy to announce new rental rates that substantially lowers the cost of imaging at any of our online observatories. To give you an idea just how much we've adjusted our prices, our most popular telescope, the LightBuckets 24" RC, has changed from 175 points per hour to 100 points per hour. To entice more visitors to give LightBuckets a try, we have come up with extra special pri...