Jessica Barton | 27 Oct 2010
Last weekend, October 22-24, was the California Science Teachers Association's annual conference in Sacramento. The conference featured 14 hours of workshops, two general sessions, six focus speakers, four field courses, 16 short courses, as well a
LCO Webmaster | 22 Oct 2010
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Edward Gomez | 12 Oct 2010
Once again, Richard Miles from British Astronomical Association's Asteroids and Comets section has glimpsed another fast rotating asteroid, called 2010 TD54. It is estimated that this asteroid is only 7 (+/-2) m in diameter. This asteroid is smal
Jessica Barton | 11 Oct 2010
On October 2nd, a group of 16 guests had an in-depth tour of LCOGT's Goleta office and workshop, while learning about LCOGT's mission and goals. They traveled in executive shuttles to Sedgwick Reserve, where they were welcomed by Sedgwick sta
David Petry | 07 Oct 2010
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope’s (LCOGT) Faulkes Telescope North (FTN) was featured in The Pfluke Times of Kihei, Hawai’i in two articles in a recent Sunday edition. Stating that “It is a very cool telescope,” Anthon
LCO Webmaster | 01 Oct 2012
A small team of Las Cumbres Observatory engineering and technical specialists arrived at the Cerro Tololo International Observatory (CTIO) in central Chile on September 27, 2012. Their job, to install and commission three LCOGT 1m telescopes.
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
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
LCO Webmaster | 06 Oct 2010
This past Saturday, Siding Spring Observatory, in the Warrumbungle National Park, held its annual Open House. The Faulkes Telescope South (FTS) is one of twelve telescopes located at Siding Spring Observatory and all participated in the big
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
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
LCO Webmaster | 09 Aug 2010
Last week (August 2-4, with optional teacher workshop held July 31 - August 1) was the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) held at the beautiful University of Colorado at Boulder.  This year's theme was "Making
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
Edward Gomez | 27 Jan 2010
We have been commissioning a new camera over the past few months, called Spectral (although it is an imaging camera not a spectrometer). One of our science interns (BJ Fulton) has been following an open cluster monitoring program and has been among
Edward Gomez | 22 Jan 2010
I rediscovered a tool that I had forgotten about this morning. A website called Wordle which can grab all the text from a website, rss feed or even a paragraph that you submit and graphically display the words in a semi-artistic way. Larger words rep
Edward Gomez | 12 Jan 2010
The development of our custom made enclosures for our 0.4m telescopes is continuing. The project is called Aqawan, which is the Chumash word for 'to be dry'. Have a look at my previous blog entry about the aqawan design.
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
Edward Gomez | 04 Feb 2010
This comet appears to have undergone another massive outburst, this time on 2010 February 2 increasing in brightness by a factor of 30-40. The object is one of the largest active comets known. It follows a near-circular path about 6.2 AU from the S
Jessica Barton | 17 Apr 2010
Tonight at the Santa Barbara County Science fair, Daniel Godinez, Caylin Canales and Rishika Singh all won gold medals for their science fair projects and will be going to the state science fair next month!
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
David Petry | 05 Aug 2010
Santa Barbara– August 2010
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
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
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
JD Armstrong | 13 Jun 2010
I Got A Candy Apple. I Got A Popcorn Ball. I Got A Rock.