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Ben Burleson | 24 Jun 2011

There might be something to say for defining interfaces up front. Spending over one day cleaning up and re-organizing JSON output throughout multiple subprojects can be quite tedious. Once again, sed proved helpful, but sometimes it's harder to make

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Ben Burleson | 21 Jun 2011

This is an engineering-notes blog. After publishing the first entry, I was alerted that these are sent to subscribers around the world. Apologies if this isn't your cup of tea, but I'm hoping to share another side of our project with the world! And

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Ben Burleson | 20 Jun 2011

This is an engineering-notes blog. I plan on posting regular updates on my day-to-day happenings in a very casual format.

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LCO Webmaster | 20 Jun 2011

Saturday was a case of “third time is the charm” in terms of scheduling a star party for the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit (SBAU) as the first two attempts were weathered out. Even Saturday evening when we were gathering at Sedgw

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LCO Webmaster | 16 Jun 2011

The cover of this week's Santa Barbara Independent (June 16-23, 2011, Vol. 25, No. 283) features not only LCOGT, but how Santa Barbara is rising “to become a center of the astronomy universe.” (from the cover of the SB Independent).

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LCO Webmaster | 16 Jun 2011

It is that time of year again when the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announces the winners of their eight awards, which include amateur astronomy and outreach efforts, significant contributions to astronomy research, outstanding Ph

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David Petry | 10 Jun 2011

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) achieved a critical milestone today, with two 40’ containers leaving their Santa Barbara headquarters en route to the CTIO observatory node in Chile. Inside the containers are three sets of enc

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LCO Webmaster | 10 Jun 2011

Quick update to Progress update on our network sites.

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JD Armstrong | 04 Jun 2011

   When Dr. Günther Hasinger, the new director of the University of Hawai`i Institute for Astronomy (IfA), recently visited Maui I was more than happy to give him some time on the Faulkes Telescope North.  I did this to help him a

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LCO Webmaster | 26 May 2011

Astronomy Picture of the Day (or APOD) featured the Supernova Sonata, featuring stars exploding to music. 

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LCO Webmaster | 23 May 2011

The LCOGT network will consist of at least six sites around the world to create its unique capabilities to observe for 24/7 in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. These sites include additions to Haleakala and Siding Spring next to the two Fa

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LCO Webmaster | 09 May 2011

We held our first star party at Photon Ranch for 2011. The guests were from The Oaks Parent Child Workshop, a preschool located in Santa Barbara. For the past two years, LCOGT has donated a star party as a silent auction item to raise money for

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Edward Gomez | 09 Dec 2011

At the 2011 .astronomy meeting in Oxford, I was asked to make a pencast by another delegate (Jose Enrique Ruiz). I wrote why we are building a network of telescopes and I'm rather pleased with how it turned out.

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LCO Webmaster | 05 May 2011

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JD Armstrong | 05 May 2011

Recently Dr. John Pye brought students from his astronomy class to visit the Faulkes Telescope North. Each semester Dr. Pye brings his students from UH Maui College to the summit for an evening observing with the Faulkes Telescope North, and with sm

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LCO Webmaster | 22 Apr 2011

At McDonald Observatory in western Texas, there is a very unique telescope. This telescope had it's original first light back in October of 2009, but on April 20th, 2011, the Wren-Marcario Acecssible Telescope (WMAT) have its first ADA accessible

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Edward Gomez | 14 Apr 2011

At the end of February one of the cameras on Faulkes Telescope North broke down. This was the main work-horse camera for this telescope and came as a blow to many scientists, and UK and Hawaii schools, who could not continue their programmes on FT

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Stuart Lowe | 14 Apr 2011

Astronomical society websites often have static images of the night sky that they need to update every month. This can be time consuming and is never very satisfying because the view is usually only valid for one location at one time. To provide a

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LCO Webmaster | 11 Apr 2011

Science Night at Viejo Valley Elementary School in Santa Barbara was held on April 7. This was the first year that LCOGT was invited, after one of the organizing teachers came by our booth at Science Day at the Santa Barbara Zoo last year an

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Edward Gomez | 08 Apr 2011

This past week Stuart and I joined a host of technology savvy astronomers in New College, Oxford University (although being 'new' is relative because it was founded in 1379) for .astronomy 3. It is a grand conference venue and it is unsurprising to

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JD Armstrong | 06 Apr 2011

Last year the Clue Crew from Jeopardy! Visited Haleakalā to film clues for the show. They filmed at the University of Hawai`i sites, including the Laser Ranging Station, PanSTARRS, and of course they filmed at the Faulkes Telescope North. On Mar

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JD Armstrong | 31 Mar 2011

I have dubbed Ross Ito, Taylor Nakamura, and Dane Oshiro "The Men In Black".  They have started showing up at the Science and Engineering fairs dressed in black and looking sharp.  The students have been working with the assistanc

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LCO Webmaster | 08 Mar 2011

Friday evening, March 4, was the first of many in the 2011 season for star parties at Sedgwick Reserve. Rachel Ross and Robert Paulson of LCOGT attended, as well as Fred Marschak and one of this students from Santa Barbara City College.

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LCO Webmaster | 28 Feb 2011

This years KITP Teacher's conference was held on February 26th with a theme of “Physics and Biology: Evolution of Life and Evolution of Science.” This conference brings over a hundred science teachers at the middle and high school

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Edward Gomez | 28 Feb 2011

Our Back Parking Lot (or BPL) site behind the Santa Barbara Headquarters is our primary test assembly for the 0.4 and 1m classes of telescope (for recent progress see Rachel's blog entry, Site Development at Sedgwick and the Back Parking Lot ). W