Lunaticoastro was born in 2006 from the passion for astronomy of its founder, Jaime Alemany, an amateur astronomer since he was young.
The experience of watching the Milky Way on a clear night, a cluster, the Moon, or imaging a galaxy or nebula usually comes with telescopes, cameras, batteries, eyepieces, cables, more cables... and cold nights spent setting everything up.
Lunaticoastro started with a simple objective: to make astronomy easier and safer, with good customer support.
As the company kept steadily growing, Jaime's wife, Débora Sánchez, turned from casual to full-time collaboration in 2010. She now runs both operations, in Spain and New Zealand—and does everything that is not electronic design or code.
In early 2022, Miguel Ángel García, an outstanding software developer, joined the team helping with customer support and collaborating in new product design, software development and documentation.
Later in 2022, Águeda Alemany added many more general responsibilities to her previous role as the Queen Bee in our Hive project, contributing to documentation and software development. Javier Gordo followed soon after, becoming a key figure responsible for all logistics from Spain and co-managing social media.
Lunático Astronomía S.L. established in Torrelodones, Madrid, by Jaime Alemany.
The team grows as Débora Sánchez becomes a permanent collaborator.
Miguel Ángel García, Águeda Alemany and Javier Gordo join within the same year.
Lunaticoastro Pacific Ltd. established in New Zealand. Zijuan Dong joins to support Asian markets.
In May 2025, we established Lunaticoastro Pacific Ltd. in New Zealand, giving Lunaticoastro a base in the Southern Hemisphere for sales, logistics and customer support in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
To support our growing presence in Asia, in 2025 we welcomed Zijuan Dong to the team, a native Chinese speaker who plays a key role in helping our Chinese distributors and customers and helps with our Chinese-language documentation.
Other key people include José B. Castro, who designs all the electronic circuits; Darío A. Sánchez, who supports us with online ads and promotional banners; and Bernardo Alemany, responsible for the product and company logos and general graphic design.
Lunaticoastro works full steam on making the most versatile products for remote observatories, designed for long useful life and fully repairable. And as we've been repeatedly told, we offer the very best customer support!
Torrelodones, Madrid, Spain
+34 91 859 55 67
+34 696 59 50 54
Hamilton, New Zealand
+64 28 432 4670
Products available directly from us or through local dealers worldwide.
We're a small team. Between us, we design, develop, document, sell and support our products — and do pretty much everything else that needs doing.
For us, taking care of the planet starts with making products that last and can be repaired. We provide replacement parts and repair our products at reasonable cost, and whenever possible we provide parts and advice so they can be serviced locally.
Long useful lifeProducts are designed to last years, not to be replaced prematurely.
Affordable repairsSpare parts and repair services at reasonable cost, always.
Reduced packagingWe minimise packaging materials and prefer recyclable options wherever possible.
Local servicing supportWe provide parts and guidance so products can be serviced locally when feasible.
Long before he was on every box, Cristobal was a doodle on a notepad—the earliest idea for what became Cristobal and the Lunaticoastro logo.
The very first doodle
Cristobal meets the logo
Bernardo, our designer, still can't leave Cristobal alone in his spare time—and his daughter Maria has picked up the habit too.
Pencil studies, by Bernardo
Clay, by Bernardo
Crayon, by Bernardo
Clay, by Maria
