Officially founded in 1995, Tenagra Observatories, Ltd. is well known among professionals and advanced amateurs around the world. We literally pioneered full telescope automation not to that end alone, but to turn telescopes into efficient, self protecting mass data collection devices. Since 1995 our technology has discovered 222 extragalactic supernovae, 9 comets, 11 NEOs, the second known helium deficient dwarf nova, etc.

From 2001 until 2015 Tenagra pursued its own research as well as being the first installation to sell time to professional astronomers. Thousands of astronomical objects were observed and Tenagra Observatories data appear in over 100 papers published in collaboration with academic partners around the world.

In 2014 we prepared a proposal to NASA to offer our services for a period of 3 years to (1) Perform deep follow-up of NEOs discovered by the large installations, and (2) recovery of 2nd apparitions of known NEOs. We were granted $500,000. Our contribution to the refinement of NEO orbital parameters was highly significant.

Now we are reentering the commercial market. During this time both telescopes had to be 100% dedicated to our NASA mandate. While the work was fascinating and very timely it excluded us from doing our own research and again welcoming professional users/collaborators from around the world.

During Tenagra’s history our automation tools have become more and more refined. We believe our scheduler to be the best in the world. Users can now very easily defined the MANY options for science observations. In addition to UBVRI photometry and the usual astrometry, we have added transmission spectroscopy with a variety of dispersions.

Much of this is explained in greater detail in this site. As the director, it is my responsibility to make sure that you obtain the best possible science images for producing exacting data for publication. I am always available atmbs@tenagraobservatories.com