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...

Long time LightBuckets customer Andy Macica has been recognized for his work by Astronomy Magazine. On March 2nd, Andy's image of Eta Carinae (NGC 3372) was featured as Astronomy.com's Picture of the Day. This is an outstanding honor for Andy who used the LightBuckets 14.5RC (LB-0004) in Australia to capture his data. Andy's growing expertise in image processing did the real work though in real...

Maybe you've visited LightBuckets but need to see what we're about before spending your hard earned money on our service. Or, perhaps you're already a LightBuckets customer and just haven't had a chance to try all of our instruments. Let us help you with your decision. Until April 1st, 2009 we're giving everyone up to 60 minutes of free imaging time ($50.00 value) on our 20" Ritchey-Chrétien te...

This holiday season, you can now give the gift of astronomy with the LightBuckets Gift Card. You choose how many points the card is worth, 25, 100, 500, or more. The LightBuckets Gift Card is quick and easy to get. Simply go to the LightBuckets Account page (you’ll need to sign up for an account if you don’t already have one) and click the “Purchase Points” button on the right side of the page. ...

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...

We're very pleased to announce that the new LightBuckets wide-field observatory (LB-0003) is now online and operational. The observatory houses a Takahashi TOA-150 triplet ortho apochromat refractor on a Paramount ME german equatorial mount. The native focal length and speed of the TOA-150 have been reduced by the Takahashi Super Reducer, taking the instrument from 1100mm f/7.33 ...