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.
LCO image data archive including raw and reduced frames.
Descriptions of the archive and data pipeline, "Getting Started" guides for new users, etc.
About our science imagers, spectrographs and filter sets.
Visualizing telescope and site status.
Buy network time or purchase mirror sets.
Information about the nodes and telescopes in the network.
Visibility calculator and other observation planning tools.
Projects awarded LCO observing time in the current observing semester.
Information about proposals and the Time Allocation Committee.