-  About our immediate area.

New Mexico Skies is a private community located in south-east New Mexico. We're located about 25 miles east of Alamogordo, and about 70 miles (as the "UFO" flies) south-west of Roswell. We're surrounded by the Lincoln National Forest in a rural part of Otero County, New Mexico. The Lincoln National Forest assures us that we'll never have any neighbors to the west, south and the east. To our north is a valley that's over 400' below our mountain top location. On the other side of the valley the Lincoln National Forest continues north for another 6 miles, then the Mescalero Apache Reservation begins and continues all the way to Ruidoso. All in all, we're surrounded by hundreds of thousands of acres of land that will never be developed.

M-51, The Whirlpool Galaxy.  This is approximately 3 hours of data collected at New Mexico Skies, with a Celestron 14" SCT, and a SBIG ST-2000 color camera. Data collection and image processing was by a beginning imager. You don't have to be an expert imager to take great images at New Mexico Skies.

About our neighbors.

Sorry, we're still under construction,  Check out our other pages and come back in few days. We should be done with the website by March 15th, 2008.

About our developer.

Tom Simstad is a full time land developer from Indiana where he has been actively developing residential communities for the last 30 years. In 2002, Tom Simstad began to rekindle his life long interest in astronomy. Tom purchase his first "modern" telescope and mount in 2003. By 2004, Tom was ready to move up to a Paramount, and to better skies....., to be continued