News & Blogs from 2009

How stars explode and Teapots from Space

19 Dec 2009

Stunning new images with Herschel

17 Dec 2009

This week, a number of scientists have gathered in Madrid to discuss the first science results from the Herschel Space Telescope. Herschel is the largest astronomical telescope ever put in space (the mirror is 3.5m wide!) and observes light at infrared to submillimetre wavelengths (50 - 550 microns), around 500 times larger than the wavelength of visible light. Astronomers built this telesc

McDonald Telescope sees first light

18 Nov 2009

FTN and the realuminized mirror

04 Nov 2009

Twitter Moonwatch competition

16 Oct 2009

Maui Students Shoot For The Moon

09 Oct 2009

Tonight We will attempt to image the LCROSS impact using the Faulkes Telescope North. Recently students at Kalama Intermediate on Maui created their own LCROSS event. Assisted by Dr. J. D. Armstrong, on Friday October 2nd students in the astronomy club tested impactors that they had constructed from clay.

Science Day at the Santa Barbara Zoo

05 Oct 2009

October 3, 2009 was the first annual Science Day at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Many excited kids, parents, and teachers got to spend a sunny Saturday surrounded not only by hundreds of exciting and exotic animals, but by also learning about different types of science and by participating in several fun and educational hands-on activities.

Amateur Outreach Award 2009

05 Oct 2009

Every year the Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award is presented to an individual displaying outstanding outreach by an amateur astronomer to children and the public. This award is presented at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) annual meeting, after the ASP board of directors have reviewed all the candidates.

Maui Intitute for Astronomy Open House

03 Oct 2009

On September 18 the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, Haleakalā division held their third annual Open House from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. This year ice cream was added to the popular liquid nitrogen demonstration. The lab tours allowed hundreds of people to see the equipment used by scientists, and amazingly nothing was broken.

International Visitors at FTN

17 Sep 2009

Sunday 13th of September 2009.

Haleakala and the Faukes telescope are accustomed to international visitors but this is the first time to my knowledge that FTN has welcomed visitors from South Korea. The two sisters Yun K Oh and Sun K are from Seoul in South Korea.