News & Blogs from 2011

Sedgwick Year End 2011

19 Dec 2011

Here is a year end summery of activities involving the BOS telescope at Sedgwick Reserve covering education and outreach, science, and engineering.

Education/Outreach:

Astronomy for a better world!

19 Dec 2011

Last week I visited the South Africa Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town which is home to the IAU's Office for Astronomy Development (OAD).

New Domes in South Africa and Texas

14 Dec 2011

Despite cold and heavy winds, snow, and freezing temperatures, new domes were constructed in Texas at McDonald Observatory and in South Africa at Sutherland!

Following the updates to our website last month one area that still needed improving was our website search. For a while we've been relying on the built-in search that comes with our main content management software.

An Interview with Rachel Haynes

12 Dec 2011

This week’s interview was with Rachel Haynes. The interview actually took place in late November, and since then Rachel has accepted employment with another local company and left LCOGT.

What is LCOGT? a pencast

09 Dec 2011

At the 2011 .astronomy meeting in Oxford, I was asked to make a pencast by another delegate (Jose Enrique Ruiz). I wrote why we are building a network of telescopes and I'm rather pleased with how it turned out.

Science Night at Adams Elementary School

05 Dec 2011

On December 1, Adams Elementary School in Santa Barbara held their annual science night. Several science and engineering groups from around town were invited to participate including LCOGT.

An Interview with Federica Bianco

28 Nov 2011

An interview with Federica Bianco where she talks about her role in the science time, working on Lucky Imaging and supernova survey data.

Solar eclipse during Cape Town rush hour

28 Nov 2011

At an early hour on Friday November 25, 2011 there was a solar eclipse only visible in the Southern Hemisphere. If you had been at the South Pole, you would have seen about 80% of the Sun was covered by the Moon. From Cape Town, South Africa, the event lasted only for about an hour and the maximum coverage was only 10% of the Sun's diameter.

Following near-by asteroid's journey

11 Nov 2011

Observing with BOS one of our astronomy team, BJ Fulton, has compiled a video of the asteroid 2005 YU55 as when it was recently near the Earth on its travel around the Solar System.