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Rachel Street | 19 Feb 2009

LCOGT is about to install the new Spectral cameras, offering a wider field of view and faster read out time.  During these upgrades, the older Hawkcam cameras, EA01 and EA02, will be decommissioned.  According to our database, all current observing

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Edward Gomez | 28 Jan 2009

Not only keeping the telescopes dry but safe from wind, snow and all adverse weather conditions.

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Edward Gomez | 06 Jan 2009

This January not only marks the beginning of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, but also the official launch of our new website. There are many new features and more will be appearing over the next few months. There is also lots of exciting

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Edward Gomez | 23 Jul 2008

A British amateur astronomer has discovered the fastest rotating natural object known in our Solar System, using data from FT South part of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, have proved that the newly-discovered asteroid, 2008 HJ

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Edward Gomez | 23 Oct 2008

April Gadsby, an 8th grader at Goleta Valley Junior High in Santa Barbara, has won 1st prize (Gold) in the Santa Barbara County Science Fair, and 4th in the California State Science Fair, with an eclipsing binary lightcurve research project with LC

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Edward Gomez | 23 Oct 2008

A number of school students have won prizes in national and international competitions after working with LCOGT scientists and facilities.  On Friday 23rd May, ESO announced the winners of its "Catch a Star" competition: "ESO and EA

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Edward Gomez | 29 Aug 2008

During the summer of 2007 Olivia Gomez, a student at St David's Catholic 6th Form College, Cardiff, worked on Faulkes data of one of the most enigmatic objects in the sky, the Crab nebula.

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Edward Gomez | 24 Oct 2008

An image taken with LCOGT's Faulkes Telescope North was the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 26th 2008. You can view the APOD site here:

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Edward Gomez | 23 Oct 2008

LCOGT participated in this years prestigious Royal Society Exhibition with an exhibit titled: Is there anybody out there? Looking for new worlds. There were three general themes, each outlining the most popular methods used to detect planets around

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Edward Gomez | 16 Oct 2008

The Faulkes Telescope project team and astronomers from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University ran a highly successful “Observatory” at the 2008 National Eisteddfod. This year’s event was visited by around 156,000 people, and th

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Edward Gomez | 15 Aug 2008

There will be 21 telescopes spaced around the world, arranged in clusters of three telescopes at each of seven sites in the North and South hemispheres. Weather permitting, this enables continuous coverage of celestial objects of interest - mainly ti

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Edward Gomez | 28 Mar 2008

We are pleased to announce that we have 3 new exciting galaxies projects for FT users to enjoy! From energetic jets to crashing galaxies, these projects aim to cover a variety of galaxy topics.

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Edward Gomez | 22 Jul 2008

Just in case you were wondering if there was a conspiracy and FT South was being used for top secret observations, but appearing to be offline, here are some of the latest pictures

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Edward Gomez | 22 Jul 2008

Two leading schools in the Faulkes Telescope Project have collaborated in a year long videoconferencing project on disease dynamics with a team of mathematicans and staff from the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University. 

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Edward Gomez | 28 Mar 2008

To mark the start of National Science Week 2008 and the opening of a new exhibition in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, LCOGT was asked to attend a space themed day, last Saturday.