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The Lab

The whole constellation.

Every machine the lab has made, or is still making. Some you can take home. Some simply exist, doing one small thing against an indifferent sky.

Telescope Build to order

M42

The original 3D-printed Dobsonian.

Where it started — an ultralight, printable telescope. Sardonic by default, optically sound by design.

Telescope Build to order · 2–3 weeks

Elli

A refined Dobsonian for people who learned from the first one.

130mm of light-gathering, an improved truss, and a focuser that earns the word precision. Same existential dread, better everything.

jigawatt
Instrument Unit 001 · Brooding

jigawatt

A small machine that disagrees with lightning.

Jigawatt is a stubborn little box of hardware that second-guesses storms, catching their tantrums in copper and code, then turning them into something quieter, smaller, and slightly more reasonable.

lokki
Instrument By enquiry

lokki

Coordinated light for places that try to be quiet.

lokki threads small, listening lights through rooms that prefer whispers. Hardware that notices when to glow and when to dim, leaving corners intact and noise where it belongs: outside the beam.

Clear Skies
Software Monthly · June 2026

Clear Skies

A monthly guide to what's up there.

Clear Skies is a quietly pragmatic sky map: each month’s positions, paths, and timings laid out like pencil notes in the margin of the night, for anyone still looking up between obligations.

Sirious
Instrument Field testing · 2026

Sirious

A push-to finder with opinions about your aim.

Sirious learns the sky from two stars, then guides a manual telescope to anything you ask for with a single red arrow that never spoils your night vision. It manages this competently — and with the faint Victorian disappointment of something that expected rather better of you.