We are just starting, and are so far able to rent :

- A 60cm F/3.3 azimutal telescope, with Nagler and Ethos eyepieces. The telescope has a 8x50 finderscope. No digital setting circles or goto system yet.

- A 45cm azimutal telescope, with Nagler eyepieces. The telescope has a 8x50 finderscope. No digital setting circles or goto system yet.

- A Takahashi EM200 mount with FS102 refractor, 70mm Vixen fluorite guidescope, ST4 autoguider

- A 30cm (12") telescope on a modified Astrola mount (with 35cm drive wheels from Valmeca)

More equipment will soon join this list. I am installing CCD cameras on the photographic telescopes these days. They are ethernet cameras with Kodak KAF chips.

The Takahashi and 30cm telescope are installed under a shelter. The 45cm telescope can be moved near your lodge, so that you can observe, and get warm when you need. We are installing an intranet so that you can command image acquisition through your PC, directly from your lodge. The Takahashi is a manual pointing mount, and the 30cm has an electronic motor system which is ASCOM compatible, so you can run it from many softwares, like The Sky, PRISM, etc...

Understand that if you rent any of this equipment, you are supposed to be able to use it. Photographic telescopes are polar aligned and ready to use. We provide a checkin on the telescopes, telling you how they work, mainly for the photographic telescopes. If you have any web site with your photographs for example, please let us know before coming here.

Telescope support is provided only after our nightly tours and during the afternoon.

For beginners, we organize nightly general purpose sky discovery tours.

It is possible to rent telescopes without staying in the lodges (provided you have your own transportation between town and the lodges).

The telescope rent is paid after you observe or just before. Normally the sky is clear here, but there are cases when it is cloudy or partially cloudy. We apply the following guidelines on telescope renting :

- Sky is clear or clear for more than 80% of the night, renting is paid (even if you decided that after all you don't want to observe).

- Sky is cloudy, no rent is paid.

- Sky is on and off, we talk according to how much you could observe to agree on a fair rate.

Images to be put on line soon.