News
Calcium-Rich Supernova Examined with X-Rays for the First Time
Sandy Seale | 06 Aug 2020
Las Cumbres Observatory Observations were Essential to First-Ever Interstellar Parallax Experiment
Sandy Seale | 24 Jul 2020
Las Cumbres Observatory Robotic Telescopes Provide Vital Data for Recent Astronomical Discoveries
Sandy Seale | 26 Jun 2020
During COVID-19 pandemic, LCO has continued to operate their global network of robotic telescopes where it is safe and allowed to do so
Kiosk - observing for beginners using LCO
Edward Gomez | 03 Feb 2020
As part of our ongoing commitment to inspiring people of all ages through the use of robotic telescopes, we are pleased to announce the launch of Kiosk, an entry-level observing portal
LCO Global Sky Partner WAISSYA 2019 is an Inspiring Success
Sandy Seale | 08 Dec 2019
West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers has great success with students in Nigeria
LCO Welcomes 3rd Annual Cohort of Global Sky Partners
Edward Gomez | 02 Dec 2019
Global Sky Partners 2020 program welcomes new, exciting projects and the return of highly successful ones
Las Cumbres Observatory and LSSTC Present Awards in the TOM Community Development Program
Sandy Seale | 01 Dec 2019
Las Cumbres Observatory to help develop a Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Astronomical Data
Sandy Seale | 24 Oct 2019
Las Cumbres Observatory is one of nine organizations jointly awarded a $2.8 million grant by the National Science Foundation to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (SCIMMA).
LCO Reaches a Major Milestone with Observations on the SOAR Telescope
Sandy Seale | 14 Aug 2019
Las Cumbres Observatory has just reached a major milestone, when the first night of observations directed by LCO were conducted on the 4.1m SOAR Telescope in Chile.
LCO Names Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi New Director
Sandy Seale | 01 Aug 2019
Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi takes the reins of Las Cumbres Observatory as President & Observatory Director on August 1, 2019
LCO works with NASA and the International Space Station in Black Hole Discovery
Sandy Seale | 14 Jan 2019
Image: Artist’s conception of an accretion disk of material flowing around a supermassive black hole, launching a jet of energetic particles. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Archon controllers in Australia. And Happy Holidays!
Nikolaus Volgenau | 20 Dec 2018
On Monday, Archon controllers were installed into the Sinistro imagers at our Siding Spring site. These two instruments, now dubbed fa12 and fa11, are the last of the Sinistros to get the new controllers. They will be made available for science obser
LCO Builds New Instrument to Study December Comet
Sandy Seale | 14 Dec 2018
Comet 46P/Wirtanen as viewed with the Faulkes Telescope North, Las Cumbres Observatory at Maui, Hawaii, on 9 December 2018. The green diffuse cloud is the comet’s coma – the green color being caused by carbon molecules. The reddish stripe in the lowe
LCO and NASA’s Kepler work together to determine origins of supernova
Sandy Seale | 29 Nov 2018
Artist’s conception of the progenitor system of a Type Ia supernova. A white dwarf (tiny dot in the center of the disk at right) steals matter from a companion star (left). When it steals too much matter, the white dwarf explodes. This supernova exp
Las Cumbres Observatory Welcomes 2019 Education Partners
Edward Gomez | 13 Nov 2018
LCO Education Director Dr. Edward Gomez teaching astronomy at Camp Cosmos
Call for Proposals 2019A
Nikolaus Volgenau | 23 Aug 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory is soliciting proposals for science observations for the 2019A semester, which will begin on 1 December 2018 and run through 31 May 2019. This call is for astronomers from institutions without guarantees of Network time: the U
fl16 Sinistro bad dark; SBIG cameras fast & slow; etc.
Nikolaus Volgenau | 14 Aug 2018
Last week, the fl16 Sinistro camera (on the Dome A 1m telescope in South Africa) was equipped with a new Archon CCD controller. In the nights following the release of that instrument, from Aug 9 to Aug 13, bad dark frames were acquired which corrupte
LCO will host Professor Tabby Boyajian at Open House on August 24
Sandy Seale | 13 Aug 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory will host an open house at its headquarters in Goleta, California, from 5:30-7:30pm on Friday, August 24.
New controllers for Sinistro cameras
Nikolaus Volgenau | 08 Aug 2018
FLOYDS slit errors
Nikolaus Volgenau | 01 Aug 2018
Call for education partners 2019
Edward Gomez | 23 Jul 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for new education partners with projects to run between 1 December 2018 - 1 December 2019.
Announcing MARS (Make Alerts Really Simple) mars.lco.global
Sandy Seale | 21 Jul 2018
Zwicky Transient Facility Sees First Light on November 1, 2017. (Credit: Caltech Optical Observatories)
Las Cumbres Observatory Receives a $4,880,000 Grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Build Two New Telescopes
Sandy Seale | 09 Jul 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory Founder Wayne Rosing and Director Todd Boroson, showing where the two new 1-meter telescopes will be located on Tenerife. (Photo credit Paul Clay.)
Science Communication internship 2018
Edward Gomez | 01 Apr 2018
Applications for internships are now closed for 2018
Call for proposals 2018B
Nikolaus Volgenau | 20 Feb 2018
Las Cumbres Observatory is soliciting proposals for science observations for the 2018B semester, which will begin on 1 June 2018 and run through 30 November 2018. This call is for astronomers from institutions without guarantees of Network time: the