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LCO Webmaster | 20 Sep 2010

Saturday evening was fun-filled as over a hundred people from LCOGT, Sedgwick staff and docents, and special guests from Direct Relief International as well as families and friends filled Sedgwick Reserve. After welcomes by Wayne Rosing(LCOGT), Do

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Stuart Lowe | 29 Sep 2010

Search is one of the most popular activities on the internet* and the observation search on the LCOGT website is one of its most popular sections. We've just improved the search tool to make it easier to find your own observations and to browse throu

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Edward Gomez | 30 Sep 2010

Ten Sydney high-school students have taken a first step into the world of research by co-authoring a scientific paper with professional astronomers about a dying star. The students, from Sydney Girls High, are part of the ‘Space to Grow' p

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LCO Webmaster | 27 Sep 2010

Saturday, September 25th marked the second annual Science Day at the Santa Barbara Zoo.  Several community partners as well as zoo staff and volunteers had booths set up from 10am - 3pm with hands-on activities ranging from figuring out the an

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JD Armstrong | 25 Sep 2010

On a late Tuesday evening, going to the library usually isn't the first thing on my list of things to do, but on September 21 2010, that's exactly what a large group of community members from Kihei did. The Kihei Public Library hosted “A Night

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LCO Webmaster | 02 Mar 2010

With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban dwellers have never experienced the wonderment of pristinely dark skies and maybe never will. This loss, caused by light pollution, is a concern on many fronts: safety, energy

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Edward Gomez | 19 Mar 2010

The CoRoT satellite, operated by the French space agency CNES, has discovered a Jupiter- sized planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun in the constellation Serpens Cauda at a distance of 1500 light-years from the Earth. The parameters of this gas

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LCO Webmaster | 29 Mar 2010

This year marks the fourth year that LCOGT has participated in the KITP's annual Teacher's Conference.  Teachers from around the country all come to UCSB for this one day conference to meet with some of the world's leading experts in different areas

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JD Armstrong | 31 Mar 2010

On March 11-13 LCOGT supported the second annual Astronomy and Heliophysics Workshop on Maui.  The Workshop was held by LCOGT, and partner organizations:  The Maui Economic Development Board, The National Solar Observatory, and the Institute for Astr

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Edward Gomez | 13 Apr 2010

The discovery of nine new planets challenges the reigning theory of the formation of planets, according to new observations by astronomers, 2 of which for our own Dr Rachel Street and Dr Tim Lister .

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JD Armstrong | 19 May 2010

When I represented LCOGT at last year's AstroDay, I never thought that we could meet with more people in a single day.  We edged out last year when over 250 people visited our booth at AstroDay this year.  Visitors played Messier Bingo, and when the

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Edward Gomez | 16 Apr 2010

Experienced amateur astronomer, Richard Miles, recently visited Faulkes Telescope South . Richard has been leading our recent observing programme to follow a cometary outburst, and provides expert advice for our Asteroids and Comets programme . He

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Edward Gomez | 30 Apr 2010

We recently hosted a workshop in our Santa Barbara headquarters at the end of the KITP annual teachers' conference. During the tour around the facilities, one teacher (Steve Cooperman) took some stereograms and made anaglyphs out of them (click on

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LCO Webmaster | 03 May 2010

From the official press release:  If you had a chance to name a minor planet, what name would you give it and why? Naming X, a global online competition launches 30th April 2010 at: http://venetiaburneyphair.blogspot.com/p/competition.html

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David Petry | 05 Aug 2010

Santa Barbara– August 2010

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David Petry | 16 Jul 2010

After more than five years of redesign, engineering, and commissioning, the 18” handicap-accessible Wren-MarcarioAccessible Telescope (WMAT) will be rededicated at the McDonald Observatory Frank N. Bash Visitor’s Center this Saturday, Jul

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Edward Gomez | 04 May 2010

Richard Miles from British Astronomical Association has been coordinating UK schools to make observations of a comet that is behaving strangely. Comet P/2010 H2 (VALES) underwent a major outburst around 2010 April 15 brightening by more than 1000 t

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Edward Gomez | 23 Jun 2010

Last weekend I was part of the first UK Science Hack Day. Strangely it lasts a whole weekend, but the 'day' aspect refers to a 24 hour hack session. We were hosted by The Guardian newspaper in London (where many people also ended up sleeping there

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Edward Gomez | 18 Jun 2010

The observatory site we are affectionately calling BPL (back parking lot) is our on-site testing ground for the 1m and 0.4m projects. We have an enclosure for each; an aqawan for 0.4m and an Ash dome for our 1m. The first of our 1m network was recent

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JD Armstrong | 13 Jun 2010

I Got A Candy Apple. I Got A Popcorn Ball.  I Got A Rock.

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Edward Gomez | 11 May 2010

For those of you who have been following our news of recent comet observations and analysis by Richard Miles (BAA), he has provided us with an update on his observations of comet Vales.

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JD Armstrong | 08 Jun 2010

Students from the Hawaiian islands havebeen attending the 2010 HI-STAR program at the University of Hawai`iat Mānoa.The program pairs students with researchers at the University ofHawai`i to work on research projects. Topics include “Young HotStars”

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Edward Gomez | 28 May 2010

Last night, the 0.4m telescope in the back parking lot (BPL) produced the first fully 'sequenced' observation with the new control system.  The sequencer is the layer of software which sits on top of all the low-level telescope, instrument, and enc

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Edward Gomez | 19 Dec 2009

Over the past year I have been working on a series of science video podcasts (or vodcasts), with Jon Yardley and Olivia Gomez. There are lots of vodcasts available in the world of science but I wanted to make some which were fun and accessibe but d

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Edward Gomez | 26 May 2010

For the past week Richard Miles (BAA) has been following an as-yet unidentified object orbiting the Sun (dubbed 2010 KQ), using Faulkes Telescope North. Recent observations suggest it is a man-made object with an exciting past.