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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 2023-2024 report
Active Partners 25
Student Publications 147

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Current Global Sky Partners

Filtered by Audience: Citizen science

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Building 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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ExoClock

Since summer 2025, the ExoClock project is managed by the Pulsar non-profit civil law company, founded by the ExoClock coordinators, Angelos Tsiaras, Anastasia Kokori and Georgia Pantelidou, based in Thessaloniki, …

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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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Project: Eyes In the Skies

We study and classify exoplanets and eclipsing binaries with a focus of teaching users how to conduct exoplanet science.

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Where's the Flux?

KIC 8462852 is a star that citizen scientists identified to have unusual brightness variations. This otherwise seemingly normal F star underwent erratic and completely unpredictable dips in flux ranging from …