JMI Telescopes (Jim's Mobile, Inc.) is a world-renowned manufacturer of astronomical telescopes and after-market accessories for the amateur and professional astronomer.  They produce a variety of unique products that cannot be found anywhere else.  The founder and President of Jim's Mobile is Jim Burr.

Jim's philosophy is to create products that no others are selling.  "Our style is not to copy other companies, but to create unique products to solve problems.  If other companies are building good products, we are not going to compete with them.  We only take action when we see a need that no one is addressing.  In the case of our NGF focusers, even though there were many companies building focusers, we could find nothing that came close to zero image shift.  I thought the time had come to solve that problem."  It is that sort of thinking that Jim Burr has built his company on and boy, he makes great stuff!

We use a number of JMI products in the Observatory.  Our Martin NGT-18 is the favorite telescope for a lot of our staff. The views are crisp, bright and detailed.  It is used every night we are open.  We use JMI Wheeley Bars on two of our telescopes we move around the Observatory grounds, many of our telescopes have NGC-Max encoders and digital object locators installed on them and more than one of our telescopes has worn a JMI focuser. We hauled around a C-8 last summer to all the star parties in one of JMI's cases.  JMI cases are virtually indestructible!  JMI, your source of unique and nearly heirloom products, at Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory!