Our friend Adam Block from the University of Arizona astronomy department emailed us yesterday to let us know that his three day workshop “Making Every Pixel Count” will be kicking off at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter in late August. For those of you who don’t know Adam, he is recognized as one of the top astro-imagers and an expert in image processing techniques. Needless to say, the LightBuckets t...

We've had some questions about pricing so I thought I'd write up a message. Joining LightBuckets is absolutely free - you don't have to purchase anything up front. When you are ready to use one of our telescopes, you can find the most recent prices on the Learn More page by going to the observatory browser on the bottom right corner of the page. If you view our Quick Tour

The weather plays the most significant role in deciding if our observatories are opened or closed each evening. The LightBuckets observatories are situated in locations that are known for their dark skies, excellent seeing, good transparency, and terrific weather. Each summer, however, the desert southwest (where 3 of our telescopes are located) experiences a two to three month period called mons...

As many visitors to LightBuckets have already found out, we are not just about renting telescopes online. Sure, we'd love it if everyone who visits would try out our online telescopes and come back to use them again and again. But, it is equally important that our members and customers feel a part of the rapidly growing LightBuckets community as well. The LightBuckets Forums/a

It's true...LightBuckets has large, expensive, research-grade telescopes designed to tease faint wisps of light out of the depths of space. Astrophotographers and researchers use our telescopes to squeeze every photon out of the ether. What many LightBuckets visitors don't realize is that they can produce stunning color astro images for under $20 with our telescopes as well. This image of Messier 16 is just one example of what you can produce with LightBuckets Easy Imaging. It was captured using Easy Imaging set at Level 1 and it has had only slight brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpening post processing. Level 1 is the least expensive way to image on LightBuckets at a cost of just 20 points...that's $20.00 or less depending on how many points you purchase at a time.

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