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Global Sky Partners

The goal of the Global Sky Partners program is to inspire students, teachers and the public around the world to engage in scientific endeavors. Through this opportunity, LCO particularly aims to inspire audiences in under-represented communities and the developing world, who would not normally be able to take part in programs involving professional scientific equipment.

LCO annually provides over 1,000 hours of observing time on our telescope network to educational organizations. The Global Sky Partners are a diverse group of educators and scientists who run their own fully-supported education projects and investigations using our telescopes.

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Moore Foundation

Global Sky Partners is supported by the Simons Foundation and the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

View our 2022-2023 report
Active Partners 39
Student Publications 139

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Current Global Sky Partners

Filtered by Audience: Citizen science

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ExoClock

The ExoClock project is an open, integrated platform, with the aim of continuously monitoring the ephemerides of the Ariel candidate exoplanet targets. While many of the participants of the ExoClock …

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Hunting Outbursting Young Stars (HOYS)

HOYS is a citizen science project working with amateur astronomers. They provide  observational data for our star and planet formation research. HOYS as an LCO Global Sky partner will engage …

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Kilonova Seekers

Kilonova Seekers - LCO: STAR involves volunteers in all aspects of transient astronomy. Volunteers collaboratively decide which transient discoveries to follow up from the Kilonova Seekers citizen science project, trigger …

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Project: Eyes In the Skies

This project aims to provide educational outreach to the public to offer the opportunity to conduct real research with professional grade telescopes and cameras. Partnering with SkyTour Livestream (STLS), Martz …

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The Cluster Codex

The group behind the Cluster Codex been working to create teaching materials in the rich learning environment of star cluster analysis, which taps many foundational topics in astrophysics that are …

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Where's the Flux?

Community observations of secular dimming in the enigmatic dipper, KIC8462852. This is an open collaboration with interested users connected through the sub-Reddit, /r/KIC8462852.