LCO Webmaster | 04 Aug 2009
This week, I have been lucky enough to be asked to go out to the Haleakala site in Maui by LCOGT to help commission the telescopes. As an astrophysicist, I often analyze images from telescopes (mostly ones which work in the far-infrared range, includ
LCO Webmaster | 05 Aug 2009
Well, we've been at the summit for almost 10 hours and it's been great so far. Mark was installing a webcam on the outside of a building and we helped him out whilst the electrics and links with the 0.4m and the control software are bei
Sandy Seale | 20 Jul 2009
We have made some updates to the website in the past couple of months. Here are the highlights.
Sandy Seale | 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
Sandy Seale | 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
Sandy Seale | 28 Jan 2009
Not only keeping the telescopes dry but safe from wind, snow and all adverse weather conditions.
Sandy Seale | 27 Feb 2009
Over the next 12 months, we will be transforming our global telescope network, inline with our plans to have continuous night sky coverage by the end of 2012.
Sandy Seale | 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
LCO Webmaster | 16 Jan 2009
The next batch of 0.4m telescopes are nearly done being built and have begun to be wired up. The current plan is that the first pair will be sent to Haleakala at the end of March 2009 (where they will be housed inside the FTN clamshell), the next
Sandy Seale | 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.
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
Sandy Seale | 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:
Sandy Seale | 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
Sandy Seale | 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.
Sandy Seale | 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.
Sandy Seale | 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
Sandy Seale | 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
Sandy Seale | 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
Sandy Seale | 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
Sandy Seale | 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.