LCO Webmaster | 22 Oct 2012
After nearly eight years of design, fabrication and development, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) installed three 1-meter telescopes at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) and achieved first light on all three in a span of
LCO Webmaster | 11 Oct 2012
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope(LCOGT), a private, nonprofit scientific institution conducting time domain astrophysics and education, and a provider of global telescope resources, achieved first light with their prototype Network of Robotic
LCO Webmaster | 20 Aug 2012
Two identical FLOYDS spectrographs, installed in recent weeks at telescopes 6,000 miles apart, robotically acquired a supernovae target this week. Due to the level of precision required and the difficulty involved, few if any, other ground-based spec
Tim Lister | 27 Jan 2015
A Near Earth Object (NEO), an asteroid which can come close to the Earth, which has been designated 2004 BL86, passed safely past the Earth on January 26 at a distance about three times the distance of Earth to the moon. Less than 11 hours later, one
Todd Boroson | 17 Dec 2014
Call for Proposals for Key Projects to use the LCOGT 1m and 2m telescope networks
Todd Boroson | 16 Dec 2014
Call for Proposals to use the LCOGT 1m & 2m telescope facilities
Sandy Seale | 11 Dec 2014
This week (on 8 December 2014) Eric Saunders, LCOGT software team leader, was invited to speak to 7th grade science class in Santa Barbara Junior High. I volunteered to go along with him to help. We weren't sure how much science this class would hav
Sandy Seale | 08 Oct 2014
Last weekend one of our flagship telescopes, Faulkes Telescope South (FTS), celebrated its 10 year anniversary. For many years FTS was one of only 2 telescopes in the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. Consequently it, and its twin Fau
Sandy Seale | 03 Oct 2014
We are continually updating our systems with hardware and software, to improve the capabilities of our network. One major upgrade we have recently made is to allow adaptive scheduling of comets. We have had the capability to adaptively schedule aster
Sandy Seale | 01 Sep 2014
On Sky Today marks to launch of a brand new observing interface for LCOGT network of telescopes. It has been designed for education users and is called On Sky. Earlier this year the whole LCOGT network was officially launched with the 1-meter and 2-m
LCO Webmaster | 19 Aug 2014
We have recently identified a bug in our online visibility tool, which caused it to incorrectly calculate the hour angle of objects with high RA.
Todd Boroson | 21 Jul 2014
Call for Proposals to use the LCOGT 1m & 2m telescope facilities
Sandy Seale | 30 Apr 2014
As part of the commissioning process for our new science camera, Sinistro, some of the science team have been taking long exposures to see what the camera is capable of. Below is a colour composite image from over 7 hours, and 93 image, worth of obse
Sandy Seale | 12 Feb 2014
JD Armstrong works on outreach for University of Hawai'i's Institute for Astronomy on Maui. A major part of his job is to mentor hawaiian students in astronomy research projects and in particular projects that involve the LCOGT observatory on Maui, F
Todd Boroson | 06 Feb 2014
Last week the LCOGT Science Advisory Committee met, and, among other activities, reviewed the key project proposals. There were 11 proposals, and the total amount of time requested was more than 17,000 hours on the 1m network and about 1700 hours on
Sandy Seale | 31 Jan 2014
Early this week I visited the IAU's office of astronomy for development (OAD) in Cape Town, South Africa. In early 2012 I was very flattered to be asked to chair a task force, along with Pedro Russo from Universe Awareness, for children and schools a
Todd Boroson | 20 Jan 2014
Call for Proposals to use the LCOGT 1m & 2m telescope facilities
Sandy Seale | 09 Jan 2014
During this week (7 - 9 January 2014) BBC have been showing the latest in their annual series of live space and astronomy programmes on UK television, called Stargazing LIVE. The programmes are hosted by particle physicist and presenter Brian Cox and
Sandy Seale | 06 Jan 2014
Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award 2014, for outstanding outreach by an amateur astronomer to children and the public is awarded to Mr. Chuck Bueter. Bueter, independent informal education professional in South Bend, Indiana, was instrumental in the
Sandy Seale | 13 Dec 2013
The lifecycle of stars is one of the core parts of the science curriculum in many countries around the World. It is, however, one of the more challenging parts of the curriculum for teachers. Many teachers are not specialists in astronomy and possibl
Sandy Seale | 28 Nov 2013
LCOGT is pleased to announce a new platform for high-quality, peer-reviewed astronomy education activities has been launched today by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development. astroEDU is a platform that allows educators to discover, review, distr
Todd Boroson | 04 Nov 2013
Call for Proposals for Key Projects to use the LCOGT 1m and 2m telescope networks
LCO Webmaster | 17 Oct 2013
The Division for Planetary Science' (DPS) annual meeting unfolded last week in Denver, CO. This is the main gathering for Solar System and exoplanet scientists, and LCOGT, of course, was there!
Sandy Seale | 11 Oct 2013
Recently the annual Siding Spring Open Day took place. There were several hundred people who were taken on tours around the LCOGT observatory by the observatory manager, Mark Willis.
Rachel Street | 08 Aug 2013
Call for Proposals to use the LCOGT 2m telescope facilities