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
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
Sandy Seale | 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.
LCO Webmaster | 05 May 2011
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
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
Sandy Seale | 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
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
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
Sandy Seale | 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
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
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
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.
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
Sandy Seale | 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
Stuart Lowe | 22 Feb 2011
If you've ever used a telescope with a CCD camera you've probably encountered FITS files. FITS, or Flexible Image Transport System, is a file format used widely in astronomy to share images.
LCO Webmaster | 15 Feb 2011
Last Wednesday, Feb 9, the team working on the new science camera system, Sinistro, got their first light image. This is a huge accomplishment, congratulations to the team!
JD Armstrong | 12 Feb 2011
I didn't mean to be a geek at the NewYears party. Really I didn't. I brought my laptop, and the host told me I could set it up at a table. I think that the intent was for me to post on FB or something like that. I had a set of data from the Faulk
Sandy Seale | 10 Feb 2011
One of our science team, Yiannis Tsapras has produced a graphic showing interesting information about all the exoplanets listed on The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia.
Stuart Lowe | 09 Feb 2011
Over the past few months I've reorganised the /observations section of our site and added the ability to display collections of images (e.g. by user or by telescope) as slideshows. Today I've added some options to allow people to access the observa
Sandy Seale | 03 Feb 2011
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. LCOGT scientists are involved in the mission.
Sandy Seale | 27 Jan 2011
Once again Richard Miles (Director of the BAA, asteroids and comets section) has been following up interesting activity on the periodic comet, Comet 29P/ Schwassmann-Wachmann. His report is below.
Stuart Lowe | 21 Jan 2011
Over recent months we've been improving how we show observer's images. We started by building an ontology based around /observations. Every observation (e.g. this observation of spiral galaxy M65), observer (e.g. Whitchurch High School) and telesco
LCO Webmaster | 10 Jan 2011
Sandy Seale | 10 Jan 2011
As 2011 begins we thought it would be interesting to have a look at some numbers which were significant for LCOGT during 2010. The majority of the numbers are precise but a couple of them are estimates (look at the descriptions for more information