News & Blogs

First 'sequenced' image with 0.4m

28 May 2010

Man-made object spotted with FTN

26 May 2010

For the past week Richard Miles (BAA) has been following an as-yet unidentified object orbiting the Sun (dubbed 2010 KQ), using Faulkes Telescope North. Recent observations suggest it is a man-made object with an exciting past.

Goleta Students Use Faulkes Telescope and Win Fourth Place at State Science Fair

24 May 2010

The 59th annual California State Science Fair was held on May 17-18, 2010. This year 960 participants represented 394 schools throughout the state and competed for awards totaling over $50,000. Daniel Godinez and Caylin Canales took fourth place in the Junior Physics and Astronomy division.

Network progress in Chile

21 May 2010

LCOGT A Hit At AstroDay

19 May 2010

When I represented LCOGT at last year's AstroDay, I never thought that we could meet with more people in a single day. We edged out last year when over 250 people visited our booth at AstroDay this year.

Comet Vales - A Comet Holmes look-alike?

11 May 2010

For those of you who have been following our news of recent comet observations and analysis by Richard Miles (BAA), he has provided us with an update on his observations of comet Vales.

Comet Vales: A spiraling comet

04 May 2010

Naming X Competition

03 May 2010

From the official press release:

If you had a chance to name a minor planet, what name would you give it and why? Naming X, a global online competition launches 30th April 2010 at:

Small Binocular Telescope in 3D

30 Apr 2010

Goleta Students Use Faulkes Telescope and Win Gold Medals at County Science Fair

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!