Lunatico · 20 years

Show us where your astronomy happens

We are celebrating 20 years of Lunatico—and we would love to see your observatory, your setup, and the place where you enjoy astronomy.

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Lunaticoastro 20 years seal, 2006 to 2026, celebrate with us
Join the celebration

Send us your photos and join our anniversary draw

Twenty years is a long time to spend making things for other people's observatories, and we have never properly seen most of them. So: show us. Send a photo, or twenty. Every person who sends at least one goes into the draw.

No Lunatico equipment? No problem. We would still love to see your setup. Owning one of our products is not a condition—though we will not pretend we are not delighted when one turns up in the picture.

What we are after

Inside or outside, the whole thing or one corner of it, a wide view or a close detail—all of it counts. And it does not have to be a dome: a shed with a hinged roof, a balcony, a tripod on the lawn you carry out every clear night. If that is where your astronomy happens, that is what we want to see.

The place, not the sky. Your dome from the outside on a winter afternoon, the inside with the cables you keep meaning to tidy, the roll-off half open, the pier, the rack, the laptop on a garden table. The building work. The mess. The view from the door.

Not astrophotographs—there are plenty of competitions for those, and this is not one. We want to see where you work.

What to include

  • Name
  • Email
  • Country
  • Photos — as many as you like
  • Lunatico products in your setup — optional
  • A few words about your observatory or setup — optional

Name, email and country are all we need to identify your entry. The rest is because we are curious.

Outside, with the weather coming in
Outside, with the weather coming in
Inside, with the slit open
Inside, with the slit open
Or a detail: mount, cables, controller
Or a detail: mount, cables, controller
A telescope on its mount under an open dome shutter, with dry mountains behind
Under an open dome, on a good night
Photo: Eduardo Latorre
A gearmotor and worm gearbox driving the toothed rack that turns a dome, with its encoder and a thermometer on the wall beside it
Or the machinery that turns it

Ours, to give you the idea. Yours does not have to look like any of them.

Cartoon of an ancient town: a man on a domed roof is cutting a slit in it with a chisel while two kings shout up at him from the street below
Somebody had to cut the first shutter. From one of our Christmas cards—and proof that nobody’s first setup was elegant either.
Drawing: Bernardo Alemany
Ten winners

What you could win

We draw ten names at random. The order they come out decides the prize.

  1. 1PocketCW2The whole cloud sensor suite in a pocket
  2. 2–3Lanternfish ×2Sky quality meter, one each
  3. 4–6Textile pack ×3Lunatico kit for cold nights
  4. 7–1020th anniversary T-shirt ×4Only made once
The short version

Conditions

There is no small print, because there is no big print. This is what applies:

Any question at all, just ask: info@lunaticoastro.com