  Progress at the privately owned Boquete Optical SETI Observatory in Panama
and the Owl Observatory in Michigan is reported. The Boquete Observatory has
been dedicated to the development of innovative optical SETI detectors and
observations since 2010. It is currently equipped with a 0.5 meter Newtonian
main telescope and a piggybacked 0.35 meter Cassegrain for tracking. Although
small, the observatory's telescope and detector system has capabilities that
are equivalent to most other institutional optical SETI facilities (Schuetz, M.
et al., 2016). The optical SETI detectors at Boquete have evolved through many
stages from a three photomultiplier coincidence detector to the current single
photomultiplier version capable of detecting pulse widths up to 50 ns and for
coincidence detection against a wide range of stellar background counts. The
Owl Observatory photometer has similarly been in continuous development to
improve performance. These activities have sought to provide practical
solutions to the needs of optical SETI.
  Over the past 5 years the search for laser like signals at Boquete has
included over 5000 stellar objects. Yet, until early 2017 year there were large
gaps in the search parameters that limited the thoroughness of those
searches.Reported herein are developments that have filled many of those gaps
further extending the search boundaries. With the new capabilities, the search
through the list of stellar candidates out to 200 ly was begun anew.
