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Observatory

The design and implementation of the LCO Network is aimed at providing capabilities uniquely suited for astronomical time domain studies. The telescopes of a given aperture and their instruments are identical and state-of-the-art.

The scheduler automatically adjusts schedules of individual telescopes continuously as needed. Monitoring observations can be passed off from site to site, and observations can be interrupted for targets of opportunity very quickly.


Archive

LCO image data archive including raw and reduced frames.

Documentation

Descriptions of the archive and data pipeline, "Getting Started" guides for new users, etc.

Instruments

About our science imagers, spectrographs and filter sets.

Observatory Status

Visualizing telescope and site status.

Sales

Buy network time or purchase mirror sets.

Sites & Telescopes

Information about the nodes and telescopes in the network.

Tools

Visibility calculator and other observation planning tools.

Active Science Programs

Projects awarded LCO observing time in the current observing semester.

Time Allocation Process

Information about proposals and the Time Allocation Committee.