LCO Webmaster | 19 Dec 2011
Here is a year end summery of activities involving the BOS telescope at Sedgwick Reserve covering education and outreach, science, and engineering.
Edward Gomez | 19 Dec 2011
Last week I visited the South Africa Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town which is home to the IAU's Office for Astronomy Development (OAD). This office has recently been established to deal with issues of science education and awareness in the de
LCO Webmaster | 14 Dec 2011
Despite cold and heavy winds, snow, and freezing temperatures, new domes were constructed in Texas at McDonald Observatory and in South Africa at Sutherland!
Stuart Lowe | 14 Dec 2011
Following the updates to our website last month one area that still needed improving was our website search. For a while we've been relying on the built-in search that comes with our main content management software. That's started to prove v
Jessica Barton | 12 Dec 2011
This week’s interview was with Rachel Haynes. The interview actually took place in late November, and since then Rachel has accepted employment with another local company and left LCOGT. Rachel worked here for over 5 years and we will miss her!
LCO Webmaster | 05 Dec 2011
On December 1, Adams Elementary School in Santa Barbara held their annual science night. Several science and engineering groups from around town were invited to participate including LCOGT. Hands on activities covering a broad range of sciences were
Jessica Barton | 28 Nov 2011
This week’s interview is with Federica Bianco.
Edward Gomez | 28 Nov 2011
At an early hour on Friday November 25, 2011 there was a solar eclipse only visible in the Southern Hemisphere. If you had been at the South Pole, you would have seen about 80% of the Sun was covered by the Moon. From Cape Town, South Africa, the eve
Edward Gomez | 11 Nov 2011
Observing with BOS one of our astronomy team, BJ Fulton, has compiled a video of the asteroid 2005 YU55 as when it was recently near the Earth on its travel around the Solar System. The video is not in real time and represents many hours of observati
Jessica Barton | 08 Nov 2011
As a part of our education and outreach effort at LCOGT, and to give you a chance to get to know our staff a little better, we are starting a new interviews project. Every couple of weeks I will be interviewing a member of LCOGT's staff. We have wond
Stuart Lowe | 08 Nov 2011
A while back I wrote about our efforts to ensure that every observation taken by a public user of our telescope network has a permanent web presence. As well as providing a page for each observation with relevant information, it allowed people to bro
Edward Gomez | 08 Nov 2011
You may have noticed that our website has been pretty quiet over October and early November. This is because we have been preparing for a relaunch. The previous incarnation of the site had stood us in good stead for the past ~5 years but it was time
Edward Gomez | 17 Oct 2011
The observatories opened up - but unfortunately the weather closed in. Such was the introduction to ‘Open Day’ at Siding Spring Observatory on Saturday October 15th 2011. Fog and misty showers fortunately cleared as the morning rolled on
LCO Webmaster | 04 Oct 2011
This past Saturday (October 1) was the third annual Science Day at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Several booths were set up around the zoo featuring hands on activities ranging across many areas of science from zoo staff, volunteers, and comm
Edward Gomez | 27 Sep 2011
Our first totally online, citizen science project was launched today. It is called Agent Exoplanet and is about investigating transiting exoplanets. The 'Agent' part of the name is gives the project a secret agent theme. It might seem a little strang
LCO Webmaster | 07 Sep 2011
Site construction is continuing smoothly at Tiede Observatory and at McDonald Observatory while domes have begun being assembled at SAAO.
LCO Webmaster | 02 Sep 2011
On September 1, FLOYDS achieved first light! This is a great accomplishment for all involved! A calibration lamp were used to achieve a rough alignment and the spectra.
LCO Webmaster | 31 Aug 2011
Over the weekend, warm weather and clear skies created the perfect night for a star party at Sedgwick. Donated by LCOGT to the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) for their annual benefit, which includes both a live and silent auction. The auction w
Melissa Graham | 28 Aug 2011
Members of the LCOGT supernova team have been monitoring the evolution of a newly discovered supernova in M101. The discovery was made by the Palomar Transient Factory team on 24 August, which LCOGT astronomers are part of.
JD Armstrong | 27 Aug 2011
A Keiki's Dream The Keiki's Dream program grants dream days to children who have gone through particular hardships
Edward Gomez | 26 Aug 2011
Astronomy Picture of the Day (or APOD as it is affectionately know) has been delighting astronomy enthusiasts since 1995 with a daily image related to astronomy. It has a huge following and accepts astronomy and space related images from anyone whe
LCO Webmaster | 24 Aug 2011
(This is a quick update to the blog article First Dome Installed in Chile)
LCO Webmaster | 20 Aug 2011
After 10 days of heavy labor and several hours of sweeping away snow, scraping ice, and mopping water, the first dome 1.0m (nicknamed "Stellan" which is Latin for "Set with Stars") at Cerro Tololo was in
Edward Gomez | 17 Aug 2011
In early June a new Supernova was discovered. A supernova is the end point of a massive star where the thermal fire at the core of the star runs out of fuel, ending its life in an extremely bright explosion (see our SpaceBook page on high-mass star
Ben Burleson | 12 Aug 2011
Building a photometric shutter can be a complicated task. The goal is to expose every pixel of the CCD for the exact same window of time. However, since we have to live within the bounds of reality, we must cope with the fact that the shutter canno