The Sentinel of the Caprock Observatory was a small private observatory located on the Texas High Plains near Lubbock, Texas.
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In December 2018, the Sentinel of the Caprock Observatory (SOCO) was de-commissioned and removed from the location it had occupied in Lubbock County, Texas, since 2012. It was moved to a new dark-sky site in King County, Texas, and re-commissioned as the Cat-Star B Observatory. Here it joins a group of observatories established to take advantage of the dark skies present at this site. Cat-Star B currently doesn't contain a telescope, but in the future will probably house the NebCam system, a custom-built multi-camera, multi-lens system for wide-field astrophotography.
While SOCO no longer exists, this website will be maintained to preserve the information and imagery it contains.
Cat-Star B Observatory, formerly SOCO, at its new location at the dark sky site in King County, Texas.




LAST UPDATED
May 2021

Questions or comments? Email SOCO@cat-star.org