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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 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 | 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.

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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 | 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 | 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.

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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