Just days ago, Tim Puckett and his fellow supernova hunters discovered a bright spot at the outer edges of 15th magnitude galaxy IC 1579. It appeared to be the latest find in a long history of spotting supernovas in distant galaxies. In need of urgent verification of their discovery, Tim and his team turned to LightBuckets to confirm their discovery as part of their official submission to the In...

Introducing LightBuckets SkyView. SkyView is your online sky catalog, visual target selector, and interactive target framing tool. You will find SkyView in the LightBuckets Full Control interface in the target selection area as well as the imaging plan setup. Select from one of four zoom levels to view the sky in more or less detail. At zoom level 4 Just drag and drop the red cir...

We're happy to announce the first step towards some powerful new web technology we've been working on to make target planning and acquisition a better experience. First we'd like to introduce the live sky chart. You can view it in the FULL CONTROL panels for each observatory. (Use scopes -> Full control -> scroll through the "more details" area of each observatory listing). Then you...

LightBuckets President/CEO, Steve Cullen, has been selected to be one of the honored speakers at the 2008 Advanced Imaging Conference in San Jose, California which runs from November 14-16. Going on its fifth year, the AIC draws hundreds of the world's premier astro-photographers to one place to discuss the tools, techniques, and best practices ...

If you've been visiting LightBuckets lately, you may have noticed that the observatories in New Mexico have been unable to open at night since the beginning of July. This is due to the southwest monsoon season being underway. We had hoped that there would be at least a few nights when we'd be able to open but so far that hasn't been the case. As I discussed in this/a

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...