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Edward Gomez | 09 Aug 2012

This summer has been a very busy outreach season for us in UK. Stuart and I, with assistance from many others, have exhibited at 3 different festivals and spoken to around 1000 people. We've fine tuned setting up our stand to be a well oiled mach

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Tim Brown | 02 Aug 2012

Call for Proposals to use LCOGT 2-meter telescope facilities in the 2012B semester (1 October 2012 - 31 March, 2013).

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Jessica Barton | 30 Jul 2012

This week’s interview is with Rachel Ross.Jessica Barton: What is your job title?Rachel Ross: Jedi Master!JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve?RR: I wear many hats including being a part of the education and outreach and science teams.  I am beco

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Jessica Barton | 16 Jul 2012

This week’s interview is with Jason Eastman.Jessica Barton: What is your job title?Jason Eastman: Postdoctoral fellow.JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve?JE: My major focus is building the NRES prototype spectrograph for BOS. (NRES stands for Ne

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LCO Webmaster | 10 Jul 2012

Every year, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) presents eight awards to the astronomy community including amateur astronomy and outreach, teaching astronomy at various levels, significant contributions to astronomy research, and to outstan

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Jessica Barton | 02 Jul 2012

This week’s interview is with Michelle Becker.Jessica Barton: What is your job title?Michelle Becker: Junior Software engineer.JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve?MB: Coding! Currently I’m working on visualization of the scheduler - It’s a web a

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Tim Lister | 19 Jun 2012

The recently installed 1-meter telescope at McDonald Observatory has helped confirm its first two new Near Earth Objects (NEOs).  Both were candidates from PanSTARRS, and were followed up by a number of observatories including LCOGT. The first object

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Jessica Barton | 18 Jun 2012

This week’s interview is with Eric Saunders.Jessica Barton: What is your job title?Eric Saunders: Software engineer.JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve?ES: I work on the scheduler for our robotic telescope network. It’s a pretty unusual software

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Abiy Tekola | 14 Jun 2012

I represented LCOGT in a four days roadshow astronomy outreach program in three towns (Sutherland, Williston and Fraserburg) near the home of the LCOGT telescopes in Sutherland, South Africa. Organised by the Cape Town Science centre, SAAO and L

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David Sand | 11 Jun 2012

The first Folded Low Order whYte-pupil Double-dispersed Spectrograph (FLOYDS, for short) was commissioned at Faulkes Telescope South (FTS) at Siding Spring Observatory during the first two weeks of May, andfirst light was achieved on May 7th.  F

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LCO Webmaster | 11 Jun 2012

The month of May (and through the beginning of June) was quite busy for star parties. There were four held at Sedgwick and one at Photon Ranch (up in the hills above Santa Barbara). Thank you to everyone who helped plan and attended these events. All

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Jessica Barton | 04 Jun 2012

This week’s interview is with Gary White.Jessica Barton: What is your job title?Gary White: Network administrator.JB: Could you tell us a little bit about yourself - your education, interests, past work experiences. GW: I wear two hats. One part of m

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Jessica Barton | 21 May 2012

This week’s interview is with Dave Mullins.Jessica Barton: What is your job title?Dave Mullins: Electronic technologist.JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve?DM: I design and build control electronics for telescopes and astronomical instruments.JB

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LCO Webmaster | 09 May 2012

May 5th saw the 11th annual AstroDay celebration on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Observatories across the state were invited to participate in the event located at Prince Kuhio shopping center in Hilo, including LCOGT. JD Armstrong and Rachel Ross

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Jessica Barton | 07 May 2012

This week’s interview is with Stuart Lowe.Jessica Barton: What is your job title? Stuart Lowe: Astronomy web developer.JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve? SL: I support LCOGT’s education and outreach program by making cool things on the web. I

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Jessica Barton | 23 Apr 2012

This week’s interview is with Maida SmithJessica Barton: What is your job title?Maida Smith: Finance and administrative director. HR isn’t in my title, but it kind of falls under administration, and it makes up about a third of what I do.JB: What doe

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JD Armstrong | 10 Apr 2012

"A geosynchronous satellite doesn't move, right?"  That's the question I was asked every time I mentioned the idea of trying to image a geosynchronous satellite with the Faulkes Telescope North.

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Michelle Becker | 03 Apr 2012

Version 1.0.1 of the LCOGT Weather website was released today bringing some new features and a completely re-vamped look and feel. This new version hopes to provide a more user friendly experience that provides the data more clearly, is more accessib

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Jessica Barton | 09 Apr 2012

This week’s interview is with Abiy Tekola.Jessica Barton: What is your job title? Abiy Tekola: It is a post-doctoral fellow.JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve? AT: My work involves both science and education. My science work focuses mainly on e

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LCO Webmaster | 02 Apr 2012

The California Conservation Corps spent the weekend camping at Sedgwick doing a number of projects around the reserve, including trail maintenance on the path up the hill to BOS. As a thank you to the group for working on that path, we offered them a

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LCO Webmaster | 29 Mar 2012

The first 1-meter telescope was installed this morning at McDonald Observatory!  Crews from both LCOGT and McDonald made sure that the installation went smoothly.  Below are some of the first pictures of the 1-meter telescope being (gently)

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David Petry | 27 Mar 2012

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) shipped their first in-house designed and fabricated 1-meter telescope to McDonald Observatory today. Final assembly, balancing, and testing was completed over the last month and on March 26, t

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LCO Webmaster | 22 Mar 2012

March 21 marked the first star party at Sedgwick for the 2012 season. Not only did we have quite an enthusiastic group, the astronomy club from Santa Barbara City College, but we had perfect (but cold) weather with great seeing.

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Jessica Barton | 26 Mar 2012

This week’s interview is with Mike Falarski.Jessica Barton: What is your job title? Mike Falarski: VP of OperationsJB: What does your work at LCOGT involve? MF: I negotiate the agreements at each node site to establish the terms and conditions of cre