News & Blogs from 2008

FTN image makes Astronomy Picture of the Day

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:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

Goleta Valley Girl Shoots For the Stars!

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 LCOGT. April is the first student in the US to have used the Faulkes Telescope South which lives in Australia and is controlled over the internet.

Students win ESO competition with LCOGT!

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:

LCOGT at the 2008 Royal Society Exhibition, London

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

National Eisteddfod in Wales, UK

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 the Science Pavilion attracted around 2,000 people a day over the 8 days of the event.

Crab nebula shockwave

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.

Update on 1m development

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 time-variable objects.

Super fast rotator spotted with FTS

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 is revolving once every 42.7 seconds, classifying it is as a ‘superfast rotator'.

Bad weather at FTS

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.

Schools present work at Cambridge University

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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