About Us

ICAstronomy offer professional telescope hosting from its very dark sky site in rural Spain.  Our skies are classed between class 1 and 2 on the Bortle scale.  In addition, when conditions are perfect, we are fortunate enough to experience the ‘Zodiacal Light’ and the extremely rare ‘Gegenschein’ both are only visible under very dark skies.

We not only host your astroimaging equipment, giving it a safe, clean and dark environment, we also offer full onsite maintenance, negating the need for lengthy trips to resolve issues that invariably do arise from the very nature of the equipment and software that we all use.

Ian King and Colin Cooper have now been operating ICAstronomy for many years, firstly in the Valencian region and now, after a massive move and expansion are now, along with Samantha, based in Oria, Almeria.

ICAstronomy is now at 1180m above sea level, putting us well above the inversion layer that’s around 1,000m, we are situated in the mountains above the Almanzora Valley and in the only desert in Europe.

Many of you will have crossed paths with Ian King, formerly of Ian King Imaging, who has recently joined the team at FLO and can be contacted at ian@firstlightoptics.com

Ian holds a wealth of knowledge and is happy to discuss any requirements you may have regarding your equipment, especially when upgrading items. We have also amassed a huge amount of knowledge when it comes to the more technical onsite requirements regarding equipment and operating software.

We take great pride in hosting our customers precious equipment and there is nothing better than seeing the roofs open and all the gear working!

For more information and availability please use the contact form.