Deep Sky West
A remote telescope observatory in New Mexico & Chile
or visit https://www.deepskywest.com/
We make remote imaging and hosting affordable.
For the average backyard astrophotographer who has a love for the hobby, sometimes has great equipment, but is plagued by poor skies.
The lack of consistent clear skies results in equipment going idle for long stretches. When the weather does cooperate many imagers have to travel to remote locations, set up equipment from scratch, polar align, image, and tear it all down again at the end of the session.
Imagers fortunate enough to have home observatories don’t have the hassles of setting up for each session, but most locations lack quality skies.
We have two remote observatories.
One is located on 35 acres on Rowe Mesa in Rowe, New Mexico and our newest location is in progress in Chile. We offer remote telescope usage and telescope hosting services at our observatories situated at 7,400 feet with dark, transparent skies measuring >21 SQM.
Download Free Image Data Sets
The free data sets are calibrated master files for your convenience.
Our subscribers receive all raw data and calibration frames so the can begin the process from scratch. If you use the data as part of a published image please credit DSW by stating “Image Acquisition by the staff at Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (www.DeepSkyWest.com)” – We thank you for this consideration.
Feel free to process and publish to our Instagram page. We look forward to seeing your results!
Subscribe…
Starting at $600 / year, subscribe to one of our systems. We shoot targets on behalf of imagers from all over the world. All subscribers get all data during their term.
…or host your scope
For $700 / month, go solo, build your own team to share expenses, etc. You operate independently of DSW. We provide support, protection, guidance and advice.
Amazing images acquired at Deep Sky West
Some of our subscription-based setups
